Evaluation of predictors of mortality in frontotemporal dementia - Methodological aspects

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 586-593

  Gräsbeck, Anne ^a   Horstmann, V ^b   Englund, E ^a   Passant, U ^a   Gustafson, L ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Frontotemporal dementia; Missing data; Mortality; Pre diagnostic; Predictors; Retrospective

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PICK PRESENILE DEMENTIA; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; PICK DISEASE OF THE BRAIN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041524900     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.884     Document Type: Article

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