Dementia in community-dwelling elderly patients: A comparison of survey data, medicare claims, cognitive screening, reported symptoms, and activity limitations

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 896-905

  Pressley, Joyce C ^a,b   Trott, Charlotte ^a   Tang, Ming ^a,b   Durkin, Maureen ^c   Stern, Yaakov ^a,d  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Dementia; Epidemiologic methods; Health surveys; Medicare

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SCREENING; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0141737759     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(03)00133-1     Document Type: Article

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