Current screening methods miss worrisome number of persons with mild cognitive impairment
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
Existing screening tools for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) result in a false-negative error rate of more than 7 percent, new research indicates. These persons are misclassified as not having MCI based on standard screening instruments but actually do have MCI when more extensive testing is conducted.