Disparities in the recording of Parkinson's disease on death certificates

Movement Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 315-321

  Pressley, Joyce C ^a,c   Tang, Ming Xin ^a,b   Marder, Karen ^b,c   Cote, Lucien J ^b,c   Mayeux, Richard ^a,b,c  

^a The Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

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

^c College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Death certificates; Epidemiologic methods; Parkinson's disease; Parkinsonism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCOME; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 18144410863     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20339     Document Type: Article

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