A screening test for cognitive dysfunction that is frequently used by consultation psychiatrists when assessing patients hospitalized in a general hospital who develop psychiatric disorders.
A test performed mainly by psychiatrists to determine someone’s mental ability, used in the diagnosis of dementia.
A commonly used assessment tool to quantify a person’s cognitive ability. It assesses orientation, registration, attention, calculation, and language. Scoring is from 0 to 30, with 30 indicating intact cognition.