How well can electronic health records from primary care identify Alzheimer's disease cases?

Anna Ponjoan Josep Garre-Olmo Jordi Blanch Ester Fages Lia Alves-Cabratosa Ruth Martí Lluch Marc Comas-Cufí Dídac Parramon María García-Gil Rafel Ramos Blanes

Published in: Clinical epidemiology (2019)

PPV estimates differed depending on the gold standard. The development of algorithms integrating diagnoses and treatment of dementia improved the AD case ascertainment. PPV and sensitivity estimates were high and indicated that AD codes recorded in a large primary care database were sufficiently accurate for research purposes.

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