Estimating the incidence of dementia in New Zealand: a cohort study applying capture-recapture modelling to routinely collected linked health datasetsResearch in context

• Main Authors: Etuini Ma'u (Author), Sarah Cullum (Author), Naaheed Mukadam (Author), Daniel Davis (Author), Claudia Rivera-Rodriguez (Author), Gary Cheung (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2024-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: Issues of under-diagnosis and under-coding of dementia in routinely collected health data limit their utility for estimating dementia prevalence and incidence in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). Capture-recapture techniques can be used to estimate the number of dementia cases missing...