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. 2000 Feb 8;54(3):740-3.
doi: 10.1212/wnl.54.3.740.

Frequency and duration of hospitalization of patients with AD based on Medicare data: CERAD XX

G Fillenbaum  1 , A Heyman, B Peterson, C Pieper, A L Weiman
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Frequency and duration of hospitalization of patients with AD based on Medicare data: CERAD XX

G Fillenbaum et al. Neurology. .

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  • Neurology 2000 Apr 25;54(8):1712

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.

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