Open AccessLinkage of Hospital and Death Records Increased Identification of Dementia Cases and Death Rate Estimates
Author(s) -
Renate Zilkens,
Katrina Spilsbury,
David Bruce,
James B. Semmens
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
neuroepidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.217
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1423-0208
pISSN - 0251-5350
DOI - 10.1159/000170908
Subject(s) - dementia , medicine , record linkage , cause of death , population , medical record , vascular dementia , retrospective cohort study , confidence interval , gerontology , pediatrics , demography , disease , environmental health , sociology
To use health record data linkage to improve case ascertainment and death rate estimates of deaths with dementia.
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