Journal article
Predictors of Mortality in Dementia: The PRIME Study
MH Connors, D Ames, K Boundy, R Clarnette, S Kurrle, A Mander, J Ward, M Woodward, H Brodaty
Journal of Alzheimer S Disease | IOS PRESS | Published : 2016
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-150946
Abstract
Background: Dementia is a terminal illness. While various baseline characteristics of patients, such as age, sex, and dementia severity, are known to predict mortality, little research has examined how changes in patients' symptoms over time predict survival. There are also limited data on patients seen in memory clinics, as opposed to other health care settings, and whether antipsychotic medications are associated with mortality in dementia once patients' demographic and clinical features are controlled for. Objective: To identify predictors of mortality in patients with dementia. Method: Of 970 patients recruited from nine memory clinics around Australia, 779 patients had dementia at basel..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The Dementia Collaborative Research Centre is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council. Data collection was funded in part by Janssen-Cilag Pty Limited. Janssen-Cilag had no input into the design, execution, analysis, interpretation, or writing of this study. We thank the staff at nine sites who collected data and the patients and caregivers who supported the study.