Table 1.
Comparison of dementia recorded in Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) with information from the primary care Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)
| Women with any HES record for dementia N (% of total) |
Women with HES record for Alzheimer’s dementia N (% of total) |
Women with HES record for vascular dementia N (% of total) |
Women with HES records only for dementia, not otherwise specified N (% of total) |
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| Number of admissions mentioning dementia | Number of admissions mentioning dementia | Number of admissions mentioning dementia | Number of admissions mentioning dementia | |||||||||
| All | 1 | 2+ | All | 1 | 2+ | All | 1 | 2+ | All | 1 | 2+ | |
| CPRD diagnosis fully agreeda | 288 (85%) | 93 (73%) | 195 (92%) | 155 (95%) | 41 (93%) | 114 (95%) | 66 (88%) | 14 (78%) | 51 (90%) | 65 (70%) | 33 (60%) | 32 (84%) |
| Diagnostic agreement uncertain | 48 (14%) | 30 (24%) | 18 (8%) | 9 (5%) | 3 (7%) | 6 (5%) | 9 (12%) | 4 (22%) | 6 (10%) | 24 (26%) | 18 (33%) | 6 (16%) |
| CPRD diagnosis disagreed | 4 (1%) | 4 (3%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (4%) | 4 (7%) | 0 |
| Total (=100%) | 340 | 127 | 213 | 164 | 44 | 120 | 75 | 18 | 57 | 93 | 55 | 38 |
aAll comparisons are with CPRD record of any dementia diagnosis