| Literature DB >> 10680815 |
G Fillenbaum1, A Heyman, B Peterson, C Pieper, A L Weiman.
Abstract
Medicare records on 477 Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease patients with AD for 1991 through 1995 showed a hospitalization rate of 0.37/person-year with a length of stay of 3.7 days/ person-year (average of 10 days/hospitalization). Unmarried and less-educated patients with AD were admitted to the hospital more frequently, and, along with black patients, had a longer length of stay. Frequency and duration of hospitalization were greater in the patients with AD than in Medicare beneficiaries in general, but the rate of diagnostic/therapeutic procedures was lower.Entities:
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10680815 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.54.3.740
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurology ISSN: 0028-3878 Impact factor: 9.910