28,180 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
To assess the occurrence and related features of motor vehicle crashes in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) we studied 30 patients who had been followed longitudinally and 20 healthy age-matched control subjects. 2 key findings →
Participants: 30 Evidence: low
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Circadian rhythms in elderly patients with severe dementia and behavioral disorders such as wandering, agitation and/or delirium were examined. 1 key finding →
Participants: 24 Evidence: low
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There is a consistent pattern of vulnerability to LB formation across subcortical, paralimbic, and neocortical structures that is similar for DLB cases with or without concomitant AD. 4 key findings →
Participants: 25 Evidence: low
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The difficulty in differentiating progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP, also called Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome) from other related disorders was the incentive for a study to determine the clinical features that best distinguish PSP. 5 key findings →
Participants: 24 Evidence: low
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Performance on a brief cognitive screen on admission was strongly related to subsequent change in function. 2 key findings →
Participants: 2,557 Evidence: low
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Diffuse aspiration bronchiolitis (DAB) is a new term that we proposed to define a clinical entity that is characterized by a chronic inflammation of bronchioles caused by recurrent aspiration of foreign particles. 3 key findings →
Participants: 31 Evidence: low
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The case story of a 47-year-old man with advanced rectal carcinoma illustrates the professional services and care system strategies available to help clinicians serve patients coming to the end of life. 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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The results of our study contribute to a better understanding of the factors hindering GPs in initiating ACP. 2 key findings →
Participants: 36 Evidence: low
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In interviews PWD were able to indicate their treatment preferences across all three scenarios. 2 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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Most people in Germany die in institutions; the most common place of death is still the hospital, where more than half of all deaths take place. 2 key findings →
Participants: 24 Evidence: low
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This qualitative evaluation of ACP in early dementia has encouragingly positive results which support the wider application of the intervention in memory services and community mental health teams. 2 key findings →
Participants: 12 Evidence: low
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Cessation of life-support treatment is an appropriate option for situations in which the burdens of therapy substantially outweigh the benefits. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Prevalence of ACPs and formal authorization of a legal representative was low among the deceased NH residents in Flanders, Belgium. 2 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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Our comparative study of psychometric properties of instruments allows for informed selection of QOC and QOD measures for LTC residents with dementia. 1 key finding →
Participants: 70 Evidence: low
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Study results highlight a critical need for better prognostic counseling and education for persons and families living with DLB. 4 key findings →
Participants: 658 Evidence: low
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We aimed to explore diagnoses associated with antipsychotic use, treatment patterns and characteristics of users without diagnoses relevant to antipsychotic treatment. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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After controlling for comorbidities, treated AD patients have better survival, lower institutionalization, and sometimes fewer resource utilizations, suggesting that treatment and improved care management could be beneficial for newly-diagnosed AD patients from economic and clinical perspectives. 4 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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Contextual factors regarding the care home environment may be obdurate and tend to negatively impact on the quality of end of life dementia care. 1 key finding →
Participants: 14 Evidence: low
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Residents and relatives experience ethical challenges in Norwegian nursing homes, mostly connected to "everyday ethical issues." 5 key findings →
Participants: 25 Evidence: low
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There is considerable ambiguity about initiating ACP in dementia at diagnosis among physicians practicing in two different European health care systems and caring for different patient populations. 2 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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Families' reports of unpleasant experiences with end-of-life care may inform practice to improve perceived quality of dying of their loved ones. 4 key findings →
Participants: 252 Evidence: low
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A large proportion of patients with ECI decline ACP discussions and the reasons are influenced by personal values, coping behaviours and sociocultural norms. 3 key findings →
Participants: 93 Evidence: low
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The percentage of psychological distress was similar between caregivers of cancer patients (77.6%) and caregivers of dementia patients (72.4%). 3 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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Functional decline is significantly associated with end-of-life hospital use among older adults. 5 key findings →
Participants: 2,493 Evidence: low
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This study reports findings from a series of focus groups with persons with dementia and family caregivers intended to explore: (1) perceptions of and experiences with advance care planning (ACP); (2) concerns related to future care including, but not limited to, end-of-life care; and (3) practices that may support positive engagement with ACP. 2 key findings →
Participants: 18 Evidence: low
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Journals are placed in ordered tiers, never given a numeric impact factor — we could not verify current impact factors from a source we control, and an invented one would be worse than none. Tier 1 is the top-tier general journals (NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, Nature, Science, Nature Medicine); tier 2 is the leading specialty journals; tier 3 is every other peer-reviewed journal. A separate part scores how much the journal's own papers are cited, which tells the tier-3 journals apart.
Two rules we don't bend. First, we never fill in a missing value: if a record does not state a sample size or a design, that component scores zero, and if we simply have no data for a part, such as a citation count, that part is left out and the study is scored on the parts we could check. The study card says which. Second, anything that is not a peer-reviewed article is capped at 16/100 and carries a warning chip — so a conference abstract or a company press release can never outrank a peer-reviewed paper, no matter how good it looks.
We rank a rigorous null result — a good trial showing that something does not work — above an early positive finding. Someone deciding whether to buy a supplement is served by that, and the rigour is already counted by the design and journal components.
The score is computed from the published data alone and is reproducible: the same file always yields the same numbers.
See the whole rubric drawn out → — four charts covering all 28,180 studies: how the scores are spread and where the cap bites, which of the 20 components the library is strong and weak on, which subjects rest on stronger evidence, and what kinds of study each subject is actually built from.
This is a large sample of the Alzheimer's literature, not an exhaustive index of it. It holds 28,180 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (61.7% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.1%), plus smaller pulls from PubMed, Crossref and medRxiv. If a study, a drug, or a finding isn't here, that is not evidence it doesn't exist in the literature — it may simply not have been pulled in yet.
1,034 records (3.7% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 962 of those are preprints posted before any journal review, and the rest are conference abstracts, regulatory notices and reports. Every study card on this page states its status plainly, and the score above is capped for anything that isn't a peer-reviewed article.
See the full, machine-readable breakdown of this library's coverage →