Table 2.
Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of patients according to the validation method: survey of general practitioners (GPs) to evaluate recorded AD diagnoses or linkage between datasets from primary (SIDIAP) and secondary care (ReDeGi)
| Survey | Dataset | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluated patients (n=137) | Not-evaluated patients (n=51) | All selected patients (n=4,966) | |
| Age, (sd) | 80.9 (7.7) | 83.5 (6.9) | 80.2 (6.9) |
| Women, n (%) | 92 (67%) | 36 (70%) | 3151 (63%) |
| Deprivation index, n (%) | |||
| Quintile 1: less deprived | 12 (9%) | 1 (2%) | 629 (22.64) |
| Quintile 2 | 32 (23%) | 14 (27%) | 472 (16.99) |
| Quintile 3 | 21 (15%) | 8 (16%) | 545 (19.62) |
| Quintile 4 | 34 (25%) | 13 (26%) | 653 (23.51) |
| Quintile 5: more deprived | 38 (28%) | 15 (29%) | 479 (17.24) |
| Antidementia drugs, n (%) | 92 (67%) | 32 (63%) | 3275 (66%) |
| Severity of dementia, n (%) | |||
| Mild | - | - | 2955 (60%) |
| Moderate | - | - | 1532 (31%) |
| Severe | - | - | 437 (9%) |