Is It Time for the MMSE to Retire?
Evidence of Better & Shorter Tests for Dementia
Alex Mitchell
Consultant & Hon SnR Lecturer in Liaison Psychiatry, Leicester
Cardiff 20th Anniversary Conference October 2007

When is it time to retire?
• When your job is done?
• When you are no longer making a difference?
• When you have been superseded?
• When you have been around a long time?
• When you are fed up with the latest changes?

What is the most cited study in psychiatry?
• Folstein M, Folstein S, McHugh P. Mini-Mental State. A
practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for
the clinician. J Psych Res 1975;12:189–198.

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Where is the cut-off on the MMSE?