Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jn8rn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T11:51:21.670Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Neuropsychological Diagnosis (GMS-HAS-AGECAT Package)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2005

J. R. M. Copeland  and
M. E. Dewey
J. R. M. Copeland
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K.
M. E. Dewey
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K.
Get access

Abstract

The limitations of establishing neuropsychological diagnosis through psychological testing and psychiatric examination by clinicians are discussed, along with the need to define cases of illness in a standardized way for research. The GMS-HAS-AGECAT package is a standardized assessment of mental state and historical information about onset of illness, from which data are used in a computer-assisted method to derive clinically based diagnoses of the principal types of dementia, depression and other mental illness. Recording is made of co-morbid states and levels of diagnostic confidence. Agreement between psychiatrists on AECAT diagnoses ranges from kappa values of 0.76 to 0.88, and validity has now been tested further by outcome studies. A short description is given of the Medical Research Council, EURODEM, World Health Organization and Pan American Health Organization studies now using this method.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 3 , Issue S1 , March 1991 , pp. 43 - 49
Copyright
© 1991 Springer Publishing Company

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)