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American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias®
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A simple score system for clock drawing in patients with Alzheimer's disease

Joshua Shua-Haim, MD

MedWise Center, Jersey Shore Medical Center and The Medical Center of Ocean County, New Jersey; UMONJ-SOM, Centerfor Aging, Stratford, New Jersey

G. Koppuzha, MD

Vered Shua-Haim, RN

Joel Gross, MD

MedWise Center, Affiliated with Jersey Shore Medical Center and The Medical Center of Ocean County, New Jersey

Objective: To develop a simple clock drawing score system for patients with Alzheimer's disease, that correlates with the MMSE (Folstein Mini Mental Status Examination).1

Design: A retrospective analysis of 88 patients with the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

Setting: Outpatient Memory Disorder Institute of a large community teaching hospital.

Measurements: MMSE score and two different clock drawing ratings. The MMSE and the clock drawing scoring were performed by different raters. We present a "simple clock scoring system" and compared it with a previously published scoring system by Sunderland et al,2 referred to as the standard score system.

Results: There is a strong correlation between the "new score system" and the standard scoring (Pearsons Correlation Coefficient r = 0.91, p < 0.001). However, when both systems were evaluated in a multivariate linear regression analysis, the " simple score system " was a significant predictor of Folstein MMSE (P < 0.01), while the standard scoring system was not.

Conclusion: The "simple score system" is an easy to use, accurate predictor of the MMSE score, in patients with the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.

American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias®, Vol. 12, No. 5, 212-215 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/153331759701200505
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