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ReviewCurrent neurology and neuroscience reports2015

Using Administrative Data to Examine Health Disparities and Outcomes in Neurological Diseases of the Elderly.

Allison W Willis

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Review in Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Lewy body dementia promotion by air pollutants.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2025
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  4. Claims-Based Frailty and Outcomes: Applying an Aging Measure to Older Adults with Parkinson's Disease.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2021
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  5. Generation and validation of algorithms to identify subjects with dementia using administrative data.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2019
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  7. Assessing the Antioxidant Properties ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018
    Article
  8. Review
  9. Neuroprotective effect of antioxidant compounds.Neural regeneration research · 2016
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Allison W WillisDepartment of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Blockley Hall, 723, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. allison.willis@uphs.upenn.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The fields of neurodegenerative disease and dementia research have grown considerably in the last several decades. Due to tremendous efforts of basic and clinical research scientists, we know a great deal about dementia risk factors and have multiple treatment options. Clinician recognition of cognitive impairment has increased considerably, national policies which support screening for and documenting cognitive dysfunction now exist, and public awareness of neurodegenerative disease has never been greater. These conditions promote (and demand) the growth of translational epidemiology and health services research, which focuses on examining outcomes in groups of individuals as a function of health care experiences. This review discusses the use of administrative data to answer health care outcomes and disparities questions in dementia. Of particular interest are publically available datasets that contain varying amounts of diagnostic, clinical, pharmacy, and patient information. Methodological challenges that are frequently encountered and must be understood to minimize biased inference are also discussed.

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AgedAnimalsCognition DisordersDementiaHumansOutpatientsRisk FactorsTreatment OutcomeAdministrative data researchCognitive impairmentDementiaEpidemiologyHealth services researchParkinson disease

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