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55/100

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Costs and economics

Topic: Health services, long-term care and technology

KmL identified 2 distinct Dependence Scale clusters: (A) high initial dependence, faster decline, and (B) low initial dependence, slower decline. Adjusting for patient characteristics, 6-month Medicare expenditures increased over time with widening between-cluster differences. Dependence captures dementia care costs over time. Better characterization of dependence clusters has significant implications for understanding disease progression, trial design and care planning.

Key findings

KmL identified 2 distinct Dependence Scale clusters: (A) high initial dependence, faster decline, and (B) low initial dependence, slower decline.
Adjusting for patient characteristics, 6-month Medicare expenditures increased over time with widening between-cluster differences.
Dependence captures dementia care costs over time.
Better characterization of dependence clusters has significant implications for understanding disease progression, trial design and care planning.

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Study details

Study designlongitudinal study
Evidence strengthModerate

How this study scored 55/100

Published in a peer-reviewed journal, and it is a longitudinal study following the same people over time. Scored zero for sample size, effect reported, studied in people and randomised / blinded because the record does not state it. We have no data on journal's citation record, times cited, citations per year, impact for its field and year, cited by studies here, still being cited, senior author's track record, institution's track record, multi-centre collaboration and free to read, so those were left out: it earned 31 of the 56 points we could judge it on, which is 55 out of 100.

Component	Points	Why
Journal tier	7 / 10	Tier 3 — peer-reviewed journal (Alzheimer disease and associated disorders)
Journal's citation record	— / 4	No journal record from OpenAlex — left out of this score
Study design	7 / 12	A longitudinal study following the same people over time
Strength of evidence	3 / 5	Rated “moderate” in our summary
Peer-review validation	10 / 10	Peer-reviewed. Published as an article in a named peer-reviewed journal.
How recent	2 / 5	2020 — within 10 year(s) of the newest study here
Sample size	0 / 4	Participant count not stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0)
Effect reported	0 / 3	No effect size reported — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0)
Studied in people	0 / 3	Not stated whether this was studied in people — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0)
Randomised / blinded	0 / 2	No randomisation or blinding stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0)
Times cited	— / 7	No citation count (not found in OpenAlex) — left out of this score
Citations per year	— / 5	No citation count or no year — left out of this score
Impact for its field and year	— / 6	No field-weighted citation impact (OpenAlex has none yet) — left out of this score
Cited by studies here	— / 6	Not yet checked against this library's citation graph — left out of this score
Still being cited	— / 4	No yearly citation counts — left out of this score
Senior author's track record	— / 4	Senior author's record not available — left out of this score
Institution's track record	— / 3	No institution listed in OpenAlex — left out of this score
Multi-centre collaboration	— / 3	Institutions not listed — left out of this score
Indexed in PubMed	2 / 2	Indexed in PubMed (PMID 32826426)
Free to read	— / 2	Access not recorded — left out of this score
Points	31 / 56	Scored on 10 of 20 parts. We have no data for the rest, so they are left out: 31 of the 56 points we could judge it on is 55 out of 100.
Total	55 / 100	—

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APA 7th

Zhu, C. W., Lee, S., Ornstein, K. A., Cosentino, S., Gu, Y., Andrews, H., et al. (2020). Dependence Clusters in Alzheimer Disease and Medicare Expenditures: A Longitudinal Analysis From the Predictors Study. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders. https://doi.org/10.1097/wad.0000000000000402

Vancouver

Zhu CW, Lee S, Ornstein KA, Cosentino S, Gu Y, Andrews H, et al. Dependence Clusters in Alzheimer Disease and Medicare Expenditures: A Longitudinal Analysis From the Predictors Study. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders. 2020. doi:10.1097/wad.0000000000000402. PMID: 32826426.

BibTeX

@article{zhu2020-32826426,
  author  = {Zhu, Carolyn W and Lee, Seonjoo and Ornstein, Katherine A and Cosentino, Stephanie and Gu, Yian and Andrews, Howard and Stern, Yaakov},
  title   = {{Dependence Clusters in Alzheimer Disease and Medicare Expenditures: A Longitudinal Analysis From the Predictors Study}},
  journal = {Alzheimer disease and associated disorders},
  year    = {2020},
  doi     = {10.1097/wad.0000000000000402},
  pmid    = {32826426},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1097/wad.0000000000000402}
}

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