Identifying undetected dementia in UK primary care patients: a retrospective case-control study comparing machine-learning and standard epidemiological approaches

Identifying undetected dementia in UK primary care patients: a retrospective case-control study comparing machine-learning and standard epidemiological approaches

Abstract Background Identifying dementia early in time, using real world data, is a public health challenge. As only two-thirds of people with dementia now ultimately receive a formal diagnosis in United Kingdom health systems and many receive it late in the disease process, there is ample room for...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth Ford, Philip Rooney, Seb Oliver, Richard Hoile, Peter Hurley, Sube Banerjee, Harm van Marwijk, Jackie Cassell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Subjects:
Dementia
General practice
Diagnosis
Prediction
Machine learning
Early detection
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-019-0991-9

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-019-0991-9

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