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Table 5 Sensitivity and specificity of 5 items for distinguishing AD from NC

From: The items in the Chinese version of the Montreal cognitive assessment basic discriminate among different severities of Alzheimer’s disease

Item

AUC

95% CI

Cutoff

Sensitivity %

Specificity %

Verbal fluency

0.892

0.872–0.913

≤9

85.4

77.6

Orientation

0.862

0.838–0.887

≤5

91.5

83.8

Visual perception

0.899

0.879–0.919

≤6

75.1

82.6

Immediate recall

0.840

0.814–0.866

≤7

77.5

76

Delayed recall

0.945

0.913–0.959

≤4

93.6

77.2

  1. AUC: area under curve; CI: confidence interval