Is it time to use real-world data from primary care in Alzheimer's disease?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The analysis of real-world data in clinical research is rising, but its use to study dementia subtypes has been hardly addressed. We hypothesized that real-world data might be a powerful tool to update AD epidemiology at a lower cost than face-to-face studies, to estimate the prevalence and incidence rates of AD in Catalonia (Southern Europe), and to assess the adequacy of real-world data routinely collected in primary care settings for epidemiological research on AD.

Methods

We obtained data from the System for the Development of Research in Primary Care (SIDIAP) database, which contains anonymized information of > 80% of the Catalan population. We estimated crude and standardized incidence rates and prevalences (95% confidence intervals (CI)) of AD in people age

SUBMITTER: Ponjoan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7236302 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature