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6-item Cognitive Impairment Test  source   


GP first conducted this test to a score of 8 in Oct 2015 [shown in  green text after the test].  

The website author repeated it on 5 3 2016 - score 14  [shown in red text]. .

                                                      6 11 2016 - score 17 [               blue text]

The higher the score, the worse anyone is.  Max 28.


 

Six-item Cognitive Impairment Test (6CIT) - Kingshill Version 2000
1. What year is it?                                                         0  1979     4
2. What month is it?                                0  no idea  3                          
3. Give the patient an address phrase to remember with 5 components -  
eg: John, Smith, 42, High St, Bedford.                                          
4. About what time is it (within one hour)?                               0                 0             
5. Count backwards from 20-1.          0                  0
6. Say the months of the year in reverse.    
    no April, Sept
          4                  4 could not remember Dec in order to start
7. Repeat address phrase.
    Unable to give anything
   
 Unable to give anything
                           10              10
6CIT score =  /28 
 8 in Oct 2015  14 on 5 3 2016    17 on 6 Nov 2106


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