Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of informant questionnaire on cognitive decline in the elderly(IQCODE) in the assessing the severity of cognitive impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Methods: According to the clinical dementia rating, 332 patients with AD were classified into three groups: early, moderate and late stage group. Informants were interviewed with the short version of the IQCODE, which was used to analyse the correlation relationship with the mini-mental state examination(MMSE), the Mattis dementia rating scale(DRS) and the Alzheimer's disease assessment scale-cognitive subscale(ADAS-cog). A series of statistical analysis were carried out to measure the differences of IQCODE scores among three groups. Results: The validity coefficient of IQCODE with MMSE, DRS and ADAS-cog were-0.512, - 0.478 and 0.522 respectively. Taking an IQCODE threshold of 65 to discriminate early stage from moderate, the sensitivity was 66.9% and specificity was 57.3% while taking 75 for threshold to discriminate moderate from late, the sensitivity was 73.8% and specificity was 66.9%. Conclusion: IQCODE is moderately effective for assessing severity of cognitive impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease, but the IQCODE alone would result in misjudgments, and combing with other clinical dementia rating scals is helpful to improve the evaluation efficiency.
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