Table 1.

Correspondence between information from 81 death certificates that mentioned dementia in 1996-8 and information from fuller inquiries of responsible doctors

Death certificate diagnosis	Diagnosis after review				All diagnoses
	Alzheimer's disease	Probable Alzheimer's	Vascular dementia	Lewy body disease
Alzheimer's disease	14	5	2	0	21
Senile dementia or dementia unqualified	10	18	13	3	44
Vascular dementia	1	0	12	0	13
Lewy body disease	0	0	0	3	3
All diagnoses	25	23	27	6	81