Acute cardiac care & resuscitation
Evaluating measurement quality and feasibility of neurocognitive screening instruments for adult survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review
Authors' conclusion
Insufficient evidence of essential measurement properties limits instrument choice. Whilst the MoCA had acceptable criterion validity, evidence of content validity was inadequate, and reliability and responsiveness lacking.
Study context
- Population
- Adult survivors of OHCA; multidomain instruments for screening neurocognitive function27 articles · 13 instruments
- Outcome
- Measurement properties, interpretability and feasibility of neurocognitive screening instruments
Methodological detailsCOSMIN guidelines, Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE) certainty of evidence, Searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CENTRAL, CINAHL, PsychINFO from inception to August 23, 2024; 2336 titles and abstracts screened
- COSMIN guidelines
- GRADE certainty of evidence
- Searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CENTRAL, CINAHL, PsychINFO from inception to August 23, 2024; 2336 titles and abstracts screened
Pooled result
As reported in the abstract
MoCA criterion validity, high-quality evidence across 2 studies: pooled AUC
0.80
95% CI 0.67 to 0.93
Original publication
Evaluating measurement quality and feasibility of neurocognitive screening instruments for adult survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review. Resuscitation. Published 30 August 2025. doi:10.
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