Reliability of coded data to identify earliest indications of cognitive decline, cognitive evaluation and Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis: a pilot study in England - Dell’Agnello, Grazia; Desai, Urvi; Kirson, Noam Y; Wen, Jody; Meiselbach, Mark K; Reed, Catherine C; Belger, Mark; Lenox-Smith, Alan; Martinez, Carlos; Rasmussen, Jill (BMJ open, 2018)
Keywords: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Algorithms; Alzheimer Disease - psychology; Alzheimer's disease; Clinical Coding - standards; Clinical medicine; Codes; Cognition & reasoning; Cognitive ability; Cognitive Dysfunction - diagnosis; Cognitive Dysfunction - epidemiology; Dementia; Disease Progression; England - epidemiology; Family physicians; Female; Humans; Male; Medical diagnosis; Memory; Neuropsychological Tests - statistics & numerical data; Patients; Pilot Projects; Practice research; Primary care; Referral and Consultation; Reproducibility of Results; Research Methods; Researchers; Retrospective Studies; United Kingdom--UK; England; alzheimer’s disease; medical coding; clinical practice research datalink; text-based data