Table 4.

The sensitivity and specificity of MoCA-Brief in identifying the diagnosis of dementia in the validation sample (n=4,387). Bold-faced values indicate the sensitivity and specificity at the optimal cut-off scores.

Cut-off score	All education subgroups		≤12 years of education		>12 years of education
	Se, %	Sp, %	Se, %	Sp, %	Se, %	Sp, %
< 7	52.5	99.3	63.1	98.7	49.3	99.4
< 8	65.8	97.6	76.4	96.4	62.6	97.8
< 9	79.3	93.8	88.8	88.6	76.4	94.7
< 10	87.9	87.6	94.2	80.3	85.9	88.9
< 11	93.3	77.9	96.3	65.0	92.3	80.0
< 12	96.0	66.1	97.9	50.2	95.4	68.7
< 13	97.5	50.4	98.8	32.6	97.1	53.3
< 14	98.7	31.1	99.2	16.7	98.5	33.5
< 15	99.6	13.3	100.0	5.5	99.5	14.6

Se, sensitivity; Sp, specificity.