The abbreviated mental test score (AMTS) was introduced by Hodkinson in 1972 to rapidly assess elderly patient

Patient

A patient is any recipient of healthcare services. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, veterinarian, or other health care provider....

s for the possibility of dementia

Dementia

Dementia is a serious loss of cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging...

. Its uses in medicine

Medicine

Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

 have become somewhat wider, e.g. to assess for confusion

Mental confusion

Confusion of a pathological degree usually refers to loss of orientation sometimes accompanied by disordered consciousness and often memory Confusion (from Latin confusĭo, -ōnis, noun of action from confundere "to pour together", also "to confuse") of a pathological degree usually refers to loss...

 and other cognitive impairment, although it has mainly been validated in the elderly.

The following questions are put to the patient. Each question correctly answered scores one point.