Implementation of the Mental Capacity Act: a national observational study comparing resultant trends in place of death for older heart failure decedents with or without comorbid dementia

Table 2 Distribution of dementia subtypes [n (%)] following the ONS change in dementia coding practice of 2011

Coding	Pre- coding change	Post-coding change	Total
AD	642 (12.8)	465 (14.6)	1107 (13.5)
UD	4287 (85.5)	2128 (66.8)	6415 (78.2)
VD	84 (1.7)	593 (18.6)	677 (8.3)
Total	5013 (61.1)	3186 (38.9)	8199 (100)

AD Alzheimer’s disease, UD unspecified dementia, VD vascular dementia
The p values for comparison of the proportions of UD and VD pre- and post-coding change were statistically significant (p< 0.0001)

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