Aliberti, Avelino-Silva, Covinsky, and colleagues show brief bedside cognitive screeners identify dementia and predict hospital risks

Márlon Aliberti, MD, PhD, Thiago Avelino-Silva, MD, PhD, Ken Covinsky, MD, MPH, and colleagues recently published a study in The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association demonstrating that two brief bedside cognitive screening tools can identify likely dementia in hospitalized older adults without delirium. The study also found that these screeners help stratify patients’ risk for incident delirium, hospital-associated disability, and 90-day mortality.