AD:Alzheimer's Disease
ADL:Activities of Daily Living
AFU:Annual follow-up interview
AFU1:Annual Follow-up of Assessed Sample one year after Assessment
AFU2:Annual follow-up of Assessed Sample two years after Assessment
AFU3:Annual follow-up of Assessed Sample three years after Assessment
AG:CFAS Analysis group
AGECAT:Automated Geriatric Examination for Computer Assisted Taxonomy
ALPHA:Ageing in Liverpool Project - Health Aspects (the Liverpool part of CFAS)
APA:American Psychiatric Association
ATC:Anatomical and Therapeutic Classification.
BNF:British National Formulary
BSU:(Medical Research Council) Biostatistics Unit
Ca:Abbreviation for Cambridgeshire in CFAS
CAI:Computer Aided Interviewing
CAMCOG:Cambridge Cognitive Examination - the Neuropsychological component of CAMDEX
CAMDEX:Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of the Elderly
CAPE:Clifton Assessment Procedure for the Elderly
CASOC:Computer Assisted Standard Occupational Coding
CATEGO:Categorical assessment of psychiatric disorder - not an acronym.
CC75C:Cambridge City over 75 Cohort
CERAD:Committee to Establish a Registry for Alzheimers's Disease; CERAD Form - neuropathological examination summary
CFA:Cognitive Function and Ageing (Study)
CFAS:Cognitive Function and Ageing Study
CHitC:Cambridge Health in the Community Study and (Liverpool) Continuing Health in the Community Study
CPLL:Cambridge City Project for Later Life
CSA:Combined screen and assessment interviews
CSHA:Canadian Study of Health and Ageing
CSPLL:Cambridgeshire Project for Later Life - the "Cambridge" component of CFAS
CT:Computerised Tomography
DARE:Dementia Action Research Education - an intervention study within the Gwynedd CFAS component
DHSS:Department of Health and Social Security
DoB:Date of birth
DoD:Date of Death
DoH:Department of Health
DOH:Same as DoH
DOI:Declaration Of Intent to donate brain tissue for storage and neuropathological examination and assay.
DSM-III:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third version, (1980)
DSM-IIIR:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third version, revised (1987)
DSM-IV:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth version (1994)
Dx:Diagnosis
Dx1:Diagnosis at Wave 1 (assessment 1)
Dx2:Diagnosis at Wave 2
Dx3:Diagnosis at Wave 3
EMSE:Extended Mental State Examination
ESRC:Economic and Social Research Council
EURODEM:European Collaborative Group on Dementia
EURODEP:European Collaborative Group on Depression
FHSA:Family Health Service Authority
FPC:Family Practitioner Committee - The successors to FHSAs
FTD:Fronto-temporal dementia
FULLDX:Diagnosis based on the (reduced) AGECAT algorithm - restricted to dementia (organicity), depression and anxiety
GMS:Geriatric Mental State (Liverpool's interview schedule)
GP:General Practitioner
Gw:Abbreviation for Gwynedd in CFAS
HALE:Healthy Active Life Expectancy
HAS:History and Aetiology Schedule (informant interview) -the CFAS informant interview is not the HAS, but modified from it
ICAG:Institute of Public Health CFAS Analysis Grouplet
IPH:University of Cambridge Institute of Public Health
ISC:Incidence Screen
IADL:Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
ICD-9:International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (1975) (International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries, and Causes of Death)
ICD-10:International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (1992) (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems)
I/V:Interview
LBD:Lewy Body Dementia
Lp:Abbreviation for Liverpool in CFAS
MID:Multi-Infarct Dementia
MMSE:Mini-Mental State Examination
MRC:Medical Research Council
MRC BSU:Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit
MRC CFA:Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing (Study)
MRC CFAS:Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study
MRI:Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Ne:Abbreviation for Newcastle in CFAS
No:Abbreviation for Nottingham in CFAS
O3+:Diagnosis of Organicity at least at confidence level 3 on the Organicity Component of AGECAT
OHAP:Oxford Healthy Ageing Project
ONS:Office for National Statistics (formerly OPCS)
OPTIMA:Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing
OST:Office of Science and Technology
Ox:Abbreviation for Oxford in CFAS
PD:Parkinson's Disease
PDAT:Pre-senile Dementia of Alzheimer Type
PET:Positron Emission Tomography
PI:Principal Investigator
PM:Post Mortem
PSC:Prevalence Screen
PSE:Present State Examination
PSS:Psychiatric Status Schedule
RInI:Retrospective Informant Interview
RINI:Same as RInI
RIS:Resource Implications Study
SC:Social Class
SD:Senile Dementia
SDAT:Senile Dementia of Alzheimer Type
SEG:Socio-Economic Group
SLV:Since Last Visit - used in re-assessments
SMG:Study Management Group
SPECT:Single Photon Emission Computer Tomography
TDS:Townsend Disability Scale (Activities of Daily Living)
UK:United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland)
VaD:Vascular dementia
W1P1:Liverpool first wave 'screen' (phase1)
W1P2:Liverpool first wave 'assessment' (phase2)
W2P1:Liverpool second wave 'screen' (phase1)
W2P2:Liverpool second wave 'assessment' (phase2)
W3P1:Liverpool third wave 'screen' (phase1)
W3P2:Liverpool third wave 'assessment' (phase2)
W4:Liverpool fourth wave (just like combined screen and assessment in other centres)
W5:Liverpool fifth wave (just like combined screen and assessment in other centres)
W6:Liverpool sixth wave (just like combined screen and assessment in other centres)
- Research Information
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Background
- Brief Introduction
- Research Themes
- Bolt-on Studies
- Glossary of Terms
CFAS I
- Design and Interview
- Study Protocol
- Scientific Strategy
CFAS II
- Study Protocol
CFAS Wales
- Introduction
Documentation
- Study Information
- Consent Forms
- Neuropathology Forms
- CFAS I Questionnaires
- CFAS II Questionnaires
Data
- Data & Analysis
- Liverpool Data
Oversight
- Advisory Committee
- Biological Resources
- Fundings
- Ethics & Legal Aspects
- Archive Documents
- Management Structure
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