Test	Time required	How to administer	How to interpret	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)
Verbal fluency test	One minute	Ask patient to name as many animals as possible in 60 seconds Patient receives one point for each unique animal named	Score < 15 = suggestive of dementia	88	96
			Consider lowering cutoff score to 12 for persons with one to seven years of education
			Consider lowering cutoff score to 9 for persons with no education
Mini-Cognitive Assessment Instrument	Two to four minutes	Three-item recall combined with clock drawing test Patient receives one point for each correctly recalled word and two points for normal clock drawing test	Score of 0 to 2 = high likelihood of dementia	76	89
Mini-Cognitive Assessment Instrument	Two to four minutes		Score of 3 to 5 = low likelihood of dementia	76	89
Sweet 16	Two to three minutes	Three-item recall, eight-item orientation, and backward digit span Patient receives one point for each correct item, for a maximal score of 16	Score < 14 = suggestive of dementia	80	70