The Clinician Assessment of Fluctuation and the One Day Fluctuation Assessment Scale. Two Methods to Assess Fluctuating Confusion in Dementia

Overview

Journal Br J Psychiatry

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2000 Oct 21

PMID 11040887

Citations 114

Authors

M P Walker

G A Ayre

J L Cummings

K Wesnes

I G McKeith

J T OBrien

C G Ballard

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Abstract

Background: The identification of fluctuating confusion is central to improving the differential diagnosis of the common dementias.

Aims: To determine the value of two rating scales to measure fluctuating confusion.

Method: The agreement between the clinician-rated scale and the scale completed by a non-clinician was determined. Correlations between the two scales were calculated; variability in attention was calculated on a computerised cognitive assessment and variability in delta rhythm on an electroencephalogram (EEG).

Results: The Clinician Assessment of Fluctuation and the computerised cognitive assessment were completed for 155 patients (61 Alzheimer's disease, 37 dementia with Lewy bodies, 22 vascular dementia, 35 elderly controls). A subgroup (n = 40) received a further evaluation using the One Day Fluctuation Assessment Scale and an EEG. The two scales correlated significantly with each other, and with the neuropsychological and electrophysiological measures of fluctuation.

Conclusions: Both scales are useful instruments for the clinical assessment of fluctuation in dementia.

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