Open AccessValidity of Dementia Diagnoses in the Danish Hospital Registers
Author(s) -
Thien Kieu Thi Phung,
Birgitte Andersen,
Peter Høgh,
Lars Vedel Kessing,
Preben Bo Mortensen,
Gunhild Waldemar
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.026
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1421-9824
pISSN - 1420-8008
DOI - 10.1159/000107084
Subject(s) - dementia , epidemiology , medical diagnosis , danish , medicine , psychiatry , pediatrics , disease , psychology , pathology , linguistics , philosophy
The validity of dementia diagnoses in the Danish nationwide hospital registers was evaluated to determine the value of these registers in epidemiological research about dementia.
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