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Table 6 Overview of the psychometric properties for pencil and paper tests validated in a (memory) clinic for MCI (part 2: longer screening instruments)

From: Brief cognitive screening instruments for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease: a systematic review

Instrument

Number of articles*

N

healthy controls

N

MCI

n

Sensitivity

Specificity

n

AUC

n

Internal consistency

n

Inter-rater reliability

n

Test-retest reliability (mean time between tests)

NUCOG

1

60

8

68

83.3

87.5

  

68

0.92

    

MoCA

20

1628

1149

2777

83.9

74.6

2179

85.1

1801

0.78

724

0.97

1189

0.88 (3–24 weeks)

MoCA-B

1

43

42

85

81

86

85

90

85

0.82

  

25

0.91 (2 months)

SF-MoCA

1

28

43

71

  

71

86

      

ACE-M

1

72

39

111

77

82

        

ACE-R

7

334

276

610

82.8

77.4

546

87.1

528

0.87

522

0.94

430

0.95 (4–6 weeks)

Mini-KSCAr

1

21

27

48

81

95

        

FBMS

1

80

23

103

82.6

87.5

      

103

0.65 (9 weeks)

SLUMS

2

491

237

1112

84.5

75.3

728

90.5

274

0.85

    

SKT

1

56

82

138

100

84.8

138

99.1

138

0.8

    

QCST

1

186

121

307

87.6

83.3

307

92.3

    

307

0.93 (32.1 days)

DemTect

3

182

195

516

84.1

91.5

153

96.8

  

242

0.99

  

SCEB

1

48

27

75

75

86

75

86

      

STMS

2

839

261

1100

68

76

1100

81.6

      

MES

1

197

310

507

83.7

87.1

507

92.2

  

507

0.92

  

RUDAS

2

228

82

88

56.8

90.3

228

79.7

77

0.71

77

0.88

77

0.90 (4 weeks)

RCS

1

33

61

94

87

70

        

LASSI-L

1

44

15

59

73,3

93.2

        
  1. *When more than 1 study is available, the weighted mean is calculated for the sensitivity, specificity, AUC, internal consistency, inter-rater reliability, and test-retest reliability