Estimating the Prevalence of Dementia in New Zealand Using Capture‐Recapture Analysis on Routinely Collected Health Data
E. Ma'u,
S. Cullum,
N. Mukadam
et al.
Abstract:ObjectivesCommunity based dementia prevalence studies are expensive and resource intensive. Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) has never had a community based dementia prevalence study representing all major ethnic groups. In recent years, dementia prevalence estimates have been derived from routinely collected health data but issues of underdiagnosis and undercoding limit their utility. Capture‐recapture techniques can estimate the number of dementia cases missing from health datasets by modelling the ascertained over… Show more
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