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When patients present to primary care practices with concerns about memory, a screening instrument such as the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) or the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) might be administered. However, some busy clinicians likely omit these tests because of the time required to administer them. In this retrospective study from an academic memory disorders clinic, researchers compared the MMSE and the Self-Administered Gerocognitive Examination (SAGE), a validated 11-item instrument that they have developed. As indicated in its name, SAGE is self-administered; patients complete it by themselves, usually in 10 to 15 minutes.
Both the MMSE and SAGE were completed at each 6-monthly visit by 220 patients with mild Alzheimer …