Why the study?
Is Mild Cognitive Impairment a valid and stable clinical diagnosis for predicting transition to dementia?
Population
Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)
Design
Review
Authors
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Caution against relying on MCI as stable diagnosis; leaves open its validity for predicting dementia transition.
Is Mild Cognitive Impairment a valid and stable clinical diagnosis for predicting transition to dementia?
The validity of Mild Cognitive Impairment as a clinical diagnosis is questionable due to its longitudinal instability and the psychometric limitations of current diagnostic criteria.
Klekociuk et al. (2016) studied this question.
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