Item selection for short-MoCA
| MoCA items | Domain | Full sample | |
| Discrimination | Short form | ||
| Orientation (country) | Orientation | 7.37 | X |
| Trail making | Visual/executive | 2.20 | X |
| Abstraction (watch) | Abstraction | 2.13 | X |
| Orientation (year) | Orientation | 2.12 | X |
| Serial subtraction* | Attention | 1.95 | X |
| Cube copy | Visual/executive | 1.69 | X |
| Orientation (place) | Orientation | 1.62 | X |
| Abstraction (train) | Abstraction | 1.58 | X |
| Animal fluency | Language | 1.51 | X |
| Naming (elephant) | Naming | 1.41 | X |
| Attention (digit 1) | Attention | 1.36 | – |
| Naming (lion) | Naming | 1.30 | – |
| Clock drawing* | Visual/executive | 1.30 | – |
| Naming (camel) | Naming | 1.22 | – |
| Delayed recall* | Memory | 1.18 | – |
| Digit span backwards | Attention | 1.16 | – |
| Orientation (day) | Orientation | 1.06 | – |
| Orientation (month) | Orientation | 1.04 | – |
| Orientation (date) | Orientation | 1.04 | – |
| Digit span forward | Attention | 0.94 | – |
| Language (John) | Language | 0.72 | – |
| Language (dog) | Language | 0.18 | – |
Full sample includes both stroke and heart sample population (total n=428; stroke n=327; HF n=100).
*Polytomous items.
HF, heart failure; MoCA, Montreal Cognitive Assessment.