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Comparison of dementia recorded in routinely collected hospital admission data in England with dementia recorded in primary care

BACKGROUND: Electronic linkage of UK cohorts to routinely collected National Health Service (NHS) records provides virtually complete follow-up for cause-specific hospital admissions and deaths. The reliability of dementia diagnoses recorded in NHS hospital data is not well documented. METHODS: For...

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Autores principales: Brown, Anna, Kirichek, Oksana, Balkwill, Angela, Reeves, Gillian, Beral, Valerie, Sudlow, Cathie, Gallacher, John, Green, Jane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5084368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27800007
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12982-016-0053-z