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Kokmen Short Test of Mental Status
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Kokmen Short Test of Mental Status
See Also
Mental Status Screening
Indications
Dementia
Evaluation
Cognitive Function Assessment
Documentation of subsequent cognitive function decline
Criteria
Orientation (8 points)
Name
Address
Building
City
State
Day (of month or week)
Month
Year
Attention (7 points)
Up to seven digits forward
Learning (4 points, also record number of attempts)
Apple
Mr. Johnson
Charity
Tunnel
Calculations (4 points)
Calculate 5x13
Calculate 65-7
Calculate 58/2
Calculate 29+11
Abstraction (3 points)
Orange - banana
Horse - dog
Table - bookcase
Construction (4 points)
Copy Necker Cube (3-D cube drawing)
Draw a clock showing "eleven ten" or "quarter after eleven"
Information (4 points)
Current President
First President
Number of weeks in a year
Definition of an island
Recall of 4 words remembered under Learning above (4 points)
Calculation
Total score = Raw Score - (number of trials on Learning task - 1)
References
Boeve (2008) Mayo Selected Topics in Internal Medicine, Lecture
Kokmen (1987) Mayo Clin Proc 62(4):281-8 [PubMed]
Kokmen (1991) Arch Neurol 48(7): 725-8 [PubMed]
Tang-Wai (2003) Arch Neurol 60:1777-81 [PubMed]
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