What gets recorded, counts: dementia recording in primary care compared with a specialist database
Author(s) -
Katrina A. S. Davis,
Christoph Mueller,
Mark Ashworth,
Matthew Broadbent,
Amelia Jewel,
Mariam Molokhia,
Gayan Perera,
Robert Stewart
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
age and ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1468-2834
pISSN - 0002-0729
DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afab164
Subject(s) - dementia , medicine , referral , generalizability theory , database , cohort , cohort study , population , primary care , family medicine , disease , psychology , developmental psychology , environmental health , computer science
databases of electronic health records are powerful tools for dementia research, but data can be influenced by incomplete recording. We examined whether people with dementia recorded in a specialist database (from a mental health and dementia care service) differ from those recorded in primary care.
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