Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument
{{short description|Cognitive test screening for dementia}}
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The Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CASI) is a cognitive test screening for dementia, in monitoring the disease progression, and in providing profiles of cognitive impairment by examining abilities on attention, concentration, orientation, short-term memory, long-term memory, language abilities, visual construction, list-generating fluency, abstraction, and judgment with score ranges of 0 to 100, respectively.{{cite journal | last1=EL | first1=Teng | last2=Al. | first2=Et | title=The Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CASI): a practical test for cross-cultural epidemiological studies of dementia. | journal=International Psychogeriatrics | volume=6 | issue=1 | pages=45–58; discussion 62 | date=2018-12-06 | pmid=8054493 | doi=10.1017/S1041610294001602 | s2cid=25322040 | doi-access=free }}{{cite journal | last1=KN | first1=Lin | last2=Al. | first2=Et | title=[Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument, Chinese Version 2.0 (CASI C-2.0): administration and clinical application]. | journal=Acta Neurologica Taiwanica | volume=21 | issue=4 | pages=180–9 | date=2018-12-06 | pmid=23329550 }}