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No conversion tables exist between the Q\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">mci<\/jats:italic>\n                      screen and commonly-used instruments such as the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) or Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), limiting comparability across settings and studies.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      To create bidirectional conversion tables between the Q\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">mci<\/jats:italic>\n                      screen, MMSE, and MoCA in a memory clinic cohort.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A secondary analysis of data from 551 older adults attending a single-center Irish university-hospital memory clinic (2012\u20132014) was performed. Participants were classified as normal (n\u2009=\u2009101), subjective cognitive disorder (n\u2009=\u200973), MCI (n\u2009=\u2009103), and dementia (n\u2009=\u2009274). Q\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">mci<\/jats:italic>\n                      screen, MMSE, and MoCA scores were available for all participants. Equipercentile equating with log-linear smoothing generated score equivalencies and 95% confidence intervals (CI) between instruments.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The Q\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">mci<\/jats:italic>\n                      screen demonstrated a broader scoring range and greater sensitivity in the mid-range of cognitive performance than either the MMSE or MoCA. Conversion tables revealed a non-linear relationship between instruments, with ceiling effects observed for the MMSE and MoCA. At established cut-offs, an MMSE score of 24\/30 equated to a Q\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">mci<\/jats:italic>\n                      screen score of 42\/100, while a MoCA score of 26\/30 corresponded to a Q\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">mci<\/jats:italic>\n                      screen score of 71\/100 (95% CI: 68\u201374). Bidirectional tables allow translation of scores across tools.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      This study provides validated conversion tables between the Q\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">mci<\/jats:italic>\n                      screen and two widely-used cognitive instruments, to support the use of the Q\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">mci<\/jats:italic>\n                      screen in research (facilitating cross-instrument comparability and harmonization across studies), and clinical settings (determining eligibility for disease-modifying therapies).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/25424823261441514","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,22]],"date-time":"2026-04-22T14:31:38Z","timestamp":1776868298000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Converting short cognitive screen scores: Comparing the Quick mild cognitive impairment screen, Montreal cognitive assessment, and Mini-mental state examination"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1499-673X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"R\u00f3n\u00e1n","family":"O\u2019Caoimh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University College Cork"},{"name":"Mercy University Hospital"},{"name":"Department of Geriatric Medicine, Mercy University Hospital, Cork City, Ireland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eleanor","family":"Marks","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University College Cork"},{"name":"Mercy University Hospital"},{"name":"Department of Geriatric Medicine, Mercy University Hospital, Cork City, Ireland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mark R","family":"O\u2019Donovan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University College Cork"},{"name":"Mercy University Hospital"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(24)01296-0"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_3_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/978-981-99-7842-7_154"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_4_2","article-title":"Estimation of the global prevalence of dementia in 2019 and forecasted prevalence in 2050: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019","volume":"7","author":"GBD 2019 Dementia Forecasting Collaborators","year":"2022","unstructured":"GBD 2019 Dementia Forecasting Collaborators. 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