Objectives: the abbreviated mental touchstone is widely used in the assessment of cognitive impairment in somewhat old patients.


Objectives: the abbreviated mental touchstone is widely used in the assessment of cognitive impairment in somewhat old patients. However, many doctors do not administer the replete 10 questions, preferring to estimate the patient's score instead. We have studied the accuracy of doctors in predicting patients' abbreviated mental touchstone scores.



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