Term Description

The Patient Examination portion of the General Practitioner assessment of Cognition (GPCOG) is a cognitive assessment for recall, time orientation, clock drawing, and ability to provide current news information. PMID: 11943052 The screening tool is designed for primary care settings. Scores between 0-9 where 9 indicates no significant cognitive impairment (all answers are correct), 5-8 is equivocal, and 0-4 indicates cognitive impairment. If the patient scores 5-8, the patient's informant completes the informant questionnaire LOINC 79116-0. If the patient scores 0-3 out of 6 on the informant questionnaire, cognitive impairment is indicated.

Panel Hierarchy

Details for each LOINC in Panel LHC-Forms

LOINCNameR/O/CCardinalityExample UCUM Units
79117-8Patient ExaminationR
Indent79105-3Time Orientation.What is the date?R
Indent79150-9Clock Drawing (Visuospatial functioning)R
IndentIndent79106-1Please mark in all the numbers to indicate the hours of a clockR
IndentIndent79107-9Please mark in hands to show 10 minutes past eleven o'clock (11:10)R
Indent79108-7Information.Can you tell me something that happened in the news recently?R
Indent79104-6What was the name and address I asked you to remember?R
IndentIndent79109-5JohnR
IndentIndent79110-3BrownR
IndentIndent79111-142R
IndentIndent79112-9West (St)R
IndentIndent79113-7KensingtonR
Indent79114-5Total correct (out of 9)R{score}

LOINC Names Get Info

Fully-Specified Name
Patient examination panel:-:Pt:^Patient:-:GPCOG
Long Common Name
Patient examination panel [GPCOG]

Part Model Get Info

  • Component
    Patient examination panel
    LP200505-8
    • Analyte
      Patient examination panel
      LP200505-8
      • Component Numerator
        Patient examination panel
        LP200505-8
        • Component Numerator Core
          Patient examination panel
          LP200505-8
        • Component Numerator Core Suffix
          NULL
           
      • Component Denominator
        NULL
         
        • Component Denominator Core
          NULL
           
        • Component Denominator Core Suffix
          NULL
           
    • Challenge
      NULL
       
    • Adjustment
      NULL
       
    • Count
      NULL
       
  • Property
    -
    LP6769-6
  • Time
    Pt
    LP6960-1
  • System
    ^Patient
    LP310005-6
    • System Core
      NULL
       
    • Super System
      Patient
      LP6985-8
  • Scale
    -
    LP7747-1
  • Method
    GPCOG
    LP200138-8

Basic Attributes

Class
PANEL.SURVEY.GPCOG
Type
Surveys
First Released
Version 2.54
Last Updated
Version 2.63 (MIN)
Order vs. Observation
Subset
Panel Type
Panel

Member of these Panels

LOINCLong Common Name
79115-2General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition [GPCOG]

LOINC Terminology Service (API) using HL7® FHIR® Get Info

CodeSystem lookup
https://fhir.loinc.org/CodeSystem/$lookup?system=http://loinc.org&code=79117-8