Sensitivity and specificity of dementia coding in two Swedish disease registries

Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 739-741

  Jin, Ya Ping ^a   Gatz, Margaret ^a,c   Johansson, Boo ^b   Pedersen, Nancy L ^a,c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CODING; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWEDEN;

EID: 4143081404     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000134604.48018.97     Document Type: Article

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