Letter to the editor: Monitoring cognitive disturbance in delirium with the ten-point clock test

The Performance of the Clock Drawing Test in Elderly Medical Inpatients: Does It Have Utility in the Identification of Delirium?

“…32,40 The populations studied in these reports may differ from our population, that is, younger, 29 undergoing surgery, 29 or receiving trial medication. 33 The findings reported from this study are not necessarily generalizable to younger populations or those with a lower prevalence of cognitive impairment.…”

“…Our findings differ somewhat from previous studies, 2 of which were single-case studies. 32,40 The populations studied in these reports may differ from our population, that is, younger, 29 undergoing surgery, 29 or receiving trial medication.…”

Use of the Ten-Point Clock Test to Compare Executive Functioning across 24 Months in Patients with Subcortical Vascular Dementia

“…They should focus on executive frontal functions; the Clock Test is a valid executive measure, correlated with verbal and semantic fluency and with left and right recognition. Therefore, it is a potentially well-accepted (Manos, 1997(Manos, , 1998) cross-cultural, easy to administer test in vascular dementia.…”

Clocking Delirium: The Value of the Clock Drawing Test with Case Illustrations

“…However very few studies have used the CDT to assess delirium in cancer and even fewer have used the CDT to longitudinally determine response to interventions for delirium. [8][9][10] We report a case series of 2 patients that were admitted to our inpatient palliative unit with altered mental status for which the CDT was used as initial assessment and to monitor response to treatment.…”