Open AccessMeasuring Alzheimer Disease Progression with Transition Probabilities: Estimates from NACC-UDS
Author(s) -
Eldon Spackman,
Srikanth Kadiyala,
Peter J. Neumann,
David L. Veenstra,
Sean D. Sullivan
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
current alzheimer research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1875-5828
pISSN - 1567-2050
DOI - 10.2174/156720512803569046
Subject(s) - disease , marital status , medicine , institutionalisation , dementia , clinical dementia rating , multinomial logistic regression , logistic regression , demography , stage (stratigraphy) , gerontology , psychology , psychiatry , statistics , population , paleontology , mathematics , environmental health , sociology , biology
Estimate the probabilities, for Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, of transitioning between stages of disease severity (mild, moderate, severe, dead) and care settings (community, institutional).