Validity of the clinical dementia rating scale for the detection and staging of dementia in Brazilian patients

Social Sciences

• staging 100%
• rating scale 83%
• dementia 82%
• gold standard 26%
• rating 20%
• diagnostic 18%
• stroke 12%
• mental state 6%
• mental disorder 5%
• neurosciences 5%
• contingency 5%
• examination 3%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Mental Status and Dementia Tests 85%
• Dementia 68%
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (U.S.) 34%
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 33%
• Vascular Dementia 28%
• Alzheimer Disease 27%
• Elderly 15%
• Neurosciences 12%
• Reproducibility of Results 10%
• Sensitivity and Specificity 8%
• Stroke 8%