Anna Ponjoan|Josep Garre?Olmo|Jordi Blanch|Ester Fages|Lia Alves?Cabratosa|Ruth Martí?Lluch|Marc Comas?Cufí|Dídac Parramon|Maria García-Gil|Rafel Ramos
&lt;p&gt;Epidemiology of dementia: prevalence and incidence estimates using validated electronic health records from primary care&lt;/p&gt;
Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona|Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona|University of Girona
updated estimates incidence prevalence dementia crucial ensure adequate public health policy however epidemiological studies population spain conducted 2010 study assessed validity dementia diagnoses recorded electronic health records contained large primarycare database determine could used research purposes update epidemiology dementia catalonia spain estimated crude standardized prevalence incidence rates dementia catalonia 2016the system development research primary care sidiap database contains anonymized information 80 catalan population validity dementia codes sidiap assessed patients least 40 years old asking general practitioners additional evidence support diagnosis crude standardized incidence prevalence 95 ci people aged 65 years estimated assuming poisson distributionthe positive predictive value dementia diagnoses recorded sidiap estimated 910 95 ci 875945 ageand sexstandardized incidence prevalence dementia 861000 personyears 95 ci 8093 51 95 ci 4557 respectivelysidiap contains valid dementia records observed incidence prevalence estimations similar recent facetoface studies conducted spain higher studies using electronic health data european populations