Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire.
SPMSQ
- What it measures
- Brief cognitive screen for organic brain deficit - orientation, remote and recent memory, attention (serial subtraction), general information
- Length and format
- 10, scored by number of errors. performance - examiner-administered questions; error count adjusted for education/race (performance/ability test)
- Language versions
- Translated into Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese and others (approx 15+ langs)
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Pfeiffer E. A short portable mental status questionnaire for the assessment of organic brain deficit in elderly patients. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1975;23(10):433-441.
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