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Abbreviated Mental Test Score (AMTS)
Description
A dataset containing the responses of 197 persons to the ten questions of the Abbreviated Mental Test Score (AMTS). The AMTS is used to identify patients with dementia. One point is given for each correct answer, a score of 6 or less suggests that the patient has some mental impairment.
Format
A data frame with 197 rows and 13 variables.
- id
id number of the patient.
- agegrp
a factor with levels 16-65, 66-75, 76-85, 86+ for the age of the patient.
- sex
a factor with levels male, female of the patient.
- age
age of patient, with 1 if the respondent knows his/her own age and 0 otherwise.
- time
time (nearest hour), with 1 if correct and 0 otherwise.
- address
address, with 1 if correct and 0 otherwise.
- name
name of hospital (or area of town if at home) , with 1 if correct and 0 otherwise.
- year
current year, with 1 if correct and 0 otherwise.
- dob
date of birth of patient, with 1 if correct and 0 otherwise.
- month
month, with 1 if correct and 0 otherwise.
- firstww
date of first world war, with 1 if correct and 0 otherwise.
- monarch
name of monarch, with 1 if correct and 0 otherwise.
- countbac
count backwards 20-1, with 1 if correct and 0 otherwise.
References
Slade, A., Fear, J. & Tennant, A. (2006) Identifying patients at risk of nursing home admission: The Leeds Elderly Assessment Dependency Screening tool (LEADS). BMC Health Services Research, 6:31.
Examples
data(amts)
str(amts)