BIMS – Brief Interview of Mental Status (MDS 3.0)

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Original Publications

• Chodosh, J., Edelen, M. O., Buchanan, J. L., Yosef, J. A., Ouslander, J. G., Berlowitz, D. R., Streim, J. E., & Saliba, D. (2008). Nursing home assessment of cognitive impairment: development and testing of a brief instrument of mental status. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 56(11), 2069–2075. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.01944.x
• Mansbach, W. E., Mace, R. A., & Clark, K. M. (2014). Differentiating levels of cognitive functioning: a comparison of the Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) and the Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool (BCAT) in a nursing home sample. Aging & mental health, 18(7), 921–928. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2014.899971
• Saliba, D., Buchanan, J., Edelen, M. O., Streim, J., Ouslander, J., Berlowitz, D., & Chodosh, J. (2012). MDS 3.0: brief interview for mental status. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 13(7), 611–617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2012.06.004

Scale Properties and Technical Notes

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SAS Code 

This variable does not require coding. It is already included in MDS 3.0 under the variable C0500_BIMS_Scre_Num. 

Documentation 

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Distributions

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