Assessment of cognitive function in older hospital inpatients: is the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS‐M) a useful alternative to the Mini Mental State Examination?

Use of an Italian version of the telephone interview for cognitive status in Alzheimer's disease

“…The ICC coefficient was ROC curves has demonstrated a high discriminant validity (sensitivity ¼ 75%; specificity ¼ 81%) for the I-TICS, almost equivalent to that of the MMSE, and a total agreement of 85% between the two tests. These findings indeed suggest that the I-TICS can be effectively used in place of the MMSE in situations where the I-TICS would be more practical or the MMSE would be impossible to administer (Moylan et al, 2004). Telephone administration of the test in this investigation permitted us to validate it with an approach identical to the one for which the instrument was designed.…”

The Relationship between Self-Efficacy and Well-Being in Stroke Survivors

“…The total score ranges from 0 to 39 with a score below 21 as the cut-off point indicating the presence of cognitive impairment [28]. The TICS-M is highly correlated with the MMSE (r=.86) [29] and has high test-retest reliability [30].…”

An analysis of a digital variant of the Trail Making Test using machine learning techniques

“…It is used as an overall brief screening assessment of cognitive function and does not require any motor or reading actions since it was designed to be administered over a telephone [12, 13]. Participants in our study completed all portions of the TICS over the phone as part of a screening process.…”