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Improving strategies to accurately identify clinically relevant NPS is essential for more robust research.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Objectives<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We sought to determine how often objective metrics and clinical gestalt metrics agree on NPS presence or absence. We further sought to determine optimal cut-offs for affective NPS presence\/absence using the Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire (NPI-Q) severity ratings.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We assessed agreement for NPS presence\/absence among 5 different depression metrics, 4 anxiety metrics, and 2 apathy metrics via Jaccard indices using the National Alzheimer\u2019s Coordinating Centers (NACC) dataset. Analysis included exploring different NPIQ severity rating thresholds of &gt;0, &gt;1, &gt;2, and 0 and &gt;1.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>NPIQ cut-off &gt;1 for presence and =0 for absence of an NPS led to the best agreement with other metrics. However, there was poor agreement for NPS presence across depression metrics (6%) and across anxiety metrics (7%). Choice of metric could greatly skew the frequency of an NPS being present. All 3 affective NPS were more common in Lewy Body Disorder compared to Alzheimer\u2019s Disease or Vascular Cognitive Impairment, regardless of metric.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Though NPIQ severity rating cut-off choice should depend on study design, using a severity score of &gt;1 for presence and =0 for absence may best fit clinical gestalt for affective NPS. Lewy Body Disorders present with more affective NPS than other common dementia etiologies. 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