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Mini-Mental State Examination: a 30-year story

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Thirty years after its publication, the Mini-Mental State Examination is still the most widespread and reliable instrument of cognitive assessment in geriatric clinical practice. Here we discuss the causes of its wide acceptance and diffusion all over the world until today and the reasons for using it also in the forthcoming years.

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  1. Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Unit of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Florence, Via delle Oblate 4, 50141, Florence, Italy

    Enrico Mossello MD & Marta Boncinelli

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Mossello, E., Boncinelli, M. Mini-Mental State Examination: a 30-year story. Aging Clin Exp Res 18, 271–273 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03324660

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