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Prevalence and outcomes of recorded dementia vary by data source: a population cohort study of 133 407 older adults.

Background Dementia diagnoses are captured across multiple routine data sources, but discrepancies between these may affect both care and research. This study determined the prevalence and overlap of recorded dementia across primary care, hospital and community prescribing data in a UK regional coho...

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Published in:Age & Ageing Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 1 - 11
Main Authors: Penfold, Rose S, Wilkinson, Tim, Stirland, Lucy E, MacRae, Clare, Russ, Tom C, Shenkin, Susan D, Vardy, Emma, Anand, Atul, Guthrie, Bruce, Sampson, Elizabeth L
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Feb2026
Subjects:
United Kingdom
Primary health care
Hospital care
Retrospective studies
Senile dementia
Research funding
Descriptive statistics
Discharge planning
Medical records
Acquisition of data
Electronic health records
Data analysis software
Confidence intervals
Proportional hazards models
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