Recruitment procedures and their impact on the prevalence of dementia: Results from the Leipzig longitudinal study of the aged (LEILA75+)

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 130-140

  Riedel Heller, Steffi G ^a   Schork, Astrid ^b   Matschinger, Herbert ^b   Angermeyer, Matthias C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Community survey; Dementia; Elderly; Epidemiology; Prevalence; Recruitment; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0034018356     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000026248     Document Type: Article

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