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Table 1 Description of 34 studies retrieved from systematic search

From: Hospitalisation rates and predictors in people with dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Author, publication year

Country

Years of data collection

Source of study participants

Number of people with dementia

Dementia type

Outcome ascertainment

Mean years follow-up (max)

Albert, 1999 [19]

USA

1996–97

Research cohort (WHICAP)

400

AD

Records and self/carer-report

1.75

Aupperle, 1999 [20]

USA

1997

Clinical sample

58

AD

Carer-report

1

Browne, 2017 [21]

England

2008–09

National register (CPRD)

4999

All-cause dementia

National register

3 (5)

Brüggenjürgen, 2015 [22]

Germany

2005–08

Insurance register (Statutory Health Insurance)

20,000

AD

Insurance register

4

Bynum, 2004 [23]

USA

1999

Insurance register (Medicare)

103,512

All-cause dementia

Insurance register

1

Callahan, 2012 [24]

USA

2001–08

Insurance registers (Medicare and Medicaid claims, MDS and OASIS)

1523

All-cause dementia

Insurance register

5.2

Chen, 2014 [25]

England

2008–10

National registers (CPRD and HES)

3896

AD

National register

2

Cortes, 2008 [26]

France

Not reported

Research cohort (REAL-FR)

686

Mild-moderate AD

Self-report

2

Hill, 2005 [27]

USA

1999–2002

Insurance register (Medicare)

3357

AD and VaD

Insurance register

3

Jennings, 2019 [28]

USA

2012–15

Insurance register (Medicare)

3249

All-cause dementia

Insurance register

1.75

Kunik, 2003 [29]

USA

1997–99

Insurance register (VAMC)

864

All-cause dementia

Insurance register

1.8 (2)

Malone, 2009 [30]

USA

2000–06

National register (HealthCore)

5396

AD

National register

2 (6)

Maust 2017 [31]

USA

2002–08

Research cohort (ADAMS)

332

All-cause dementia

Insurance register

6

Miu, 2018 [32]

Hong Kong

2013–15

Clinical sample

267

All-cause dementia

Hospital records

1 (1)

Mueller, 2017 [33]

England

2006–13

Clinical register (CRIS)

970

AD and DLB

National register

0.9

Mueller, 2018 [34]

England

2011–13

Clinical register (CRIS)

4668

All-cause dementia

National register

2

Nourhashemi, 2005 [35]

France

Not reported

Research cohort (REAL-FR)

677

AD

Self/carer-report

1

Phelan, 2012 [36]

USA

1994–2007

Research cohort (ACT)

494

All-cause dementia

Hospital records

9.6 (12)

Pimouguet, 2016 [11]

Sweden

2001–10

Research cohort (SNAC-K)

175

All-cause dementia

National register

4.7 (6)

Rudolph, 2010 [37]

USA

1991–2006

Research cohort (MADRC)

827

AD

Self/carer-report

3

Russ, 2015 [38]

Scotland

Not reported

National register (SDRIR)

730

All-cause dementia

National register

1.2 (3.3)

Sköldunger, 2015 [39]

Sweden

2001–04

Research cohort (SNAC)

319

All-cause dementia

Self/carer-report

3

Sloane, 2017 [40]

USA

Not reported

Clinical sample

136

AD

Carer-report

0.5

Sommerlad, 2019 [41]

UK

2008–16

Clinical register (CRIS)

10,137

All-cause dementia

Hospital records

2.5 (8.2)

Soto, 2015 [42]

France

Not reported

Research cohort (PLASA)

1131

AD

Self/carer-report

2

Thorpe, 2010 [12]

USA

1997–98

Research cohort (NLCS)

1186

AD and VaD

Insurance register

1

Tolppanen, 2015 [43]

Finland

2005–09

National register (Medication and Alzheimer’s disease study)

27,948

AD

National register

4 (2.2 to 4)

Zhao, 2008 [44]

USA

2003–04

Insurance register (Medicare)

25,109

All-cause dementia

Insurance register

1

Zhu, 2015 [45]

USA

1999–2010

Research cohort (WHICAP)

171

All-cause dementia

Insurance register

3.8 (10)

Studies including sub-populations of people with dementia

Special characteristics

  

Axmon, 2016 [46]

Sweden

2002–12

National register (Swedish National Patient registry)

271

All-cause dementia (including 199 with ID)

National register

11

Chen, 2017 [47]

Taiwan

2002–11

Insurance register (National Health Insurance Research Database)

908

All-cause dementia during last year of life

Insurance register

9

Forma, 2011 [48]

Finland

1998–2003

National clinical registers

34,232

All-cause dementia during last 2 years of life

National register

2

Kedia, 2017 [49]

USA

2009

Insurance registers (Medicare and Medicaid)

9827

All-cause (including 1294 with comorbid cancer)

Insurance register

1

Tian, 2013 [50]

USA

2006–10

Insurance registers (MarketScans Commercial Claims and Medicare)

8977

AD (including 485 with dysphagia)

Insurance register

2 (3)

  1. ACT adult changes in thought, AD Alzheimer’s disease, ADAMS Ageing, Demographics and Memory Study, CRIS Clinical Record Interactive Search, DLB dementia with Lewy bodies, ID intellectual disability, MADRC Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, MDS minimum data set, NLCS National Longitudinal Caregiver Study, NPI Neuropsychiatric Inventory, OASIS Outcome And Assessment Information Set, PLASA Plan de Soin et d’Aide dans la maladie d’Alzheimer, REAl-FR French Network on Alzheimer’s Disease, SDRIR Scottish Dementia Research Interest Register, SNAC(-K) Swedish National Study on Aging and Care (-Kungsholmen), VaD vascular dementia, WHICAP Washington Heights-Inwood Columbia Aging Project