Dario M Torre, Eva Aagaard, David M Elnicki, Steven J Durning, Klara K Papp
Simulation in the internal medicine clerkship: a national survey of internal medicine clerkship directors
Teaching and learning in medicine
recently cognitive deficits occurring rheumatic diseases attracted scientific attention cognitive symptoms patients rheumatoid arthritis ra systemic sclerosis ssc thoroughly studied study aimed assess cognitive function relationship depressive symptoms ra ssc compare mild neurocognitive disorder due alzheimers disease mind individuals without cognitive impairment cognitive function depressive symptoms tapped cognitive telephone screening instrument plus cogtel serial seven test sst minimental state examination mmse geriatric depression scale15 gds respectively statistical analyses included groups correlation regression analyses demographic characteristics considered regression models study included 30 individuals ra 24 ssc 26 adults without cognitive impairment 33 individuals mind lower performance verbal shortterm memory concentrationattention verbal fluency mmse patients ra compared individuals without cognitive impairment detected note performance verbal fluency concentrationattention inductive reasoning mmse lower ra compared mind individuals ssc performed worse verbal fluency mmse comparison adults without cognitive deficits verbal fluency deficits ssc exceeded mind performance mmse cogtel prospective memory working memory verbal fluency concentrationattention related gds scores vary across groups patients ra ssc encountered cognitive dysfunction partially pertains depressive symptoms note severity cognitive dysfunction many cases exceeded mind