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Table 2 Prevalent percentage rates of neurodegenerative disease in the linked Electronic Health Records (EHR)-Medicare cohort in 2014–2017 per 100 person-years

From: Dementia and Parkinson’s disease diagnoses in electronic health records vs. Medicare claims data: a study of 101,980 linked patients

Disease Group

2014

2015

2016

2017

Pooled (2014–2017)a

Medicare

EHR

Medicare

EHR

Medicare

EHR

Medicare

EHR

Medicare Ever Diagnosed

EHR Ever Diagnosed

Neurodegenerative Disease (N, %)

4,506 (9.0)

3,178 (6.4)

5,808 (10.1)

4,052 (7.0)

7,111 (11.6)

4,986 (8.1)

7,936 (12.5)

5,675 (8.9)

10,031 (9.8)

6,472 (6.4)

Dementia

3,591 (7.2)

2,362 (4.7)

4,655 (8.1)

3,018 (5.2)

5,823 (9.5)

3,814 (6.2)

6,578 (10.4)

4,444 (7.0)

8,156 (8.0)

4,858 (4.8)

Parkinson's Disease

947 (1.9)

846 (1.7)

1,183 (2.1)

1,061 (1.8)

1,317 (2.2)

1,206 (2.0)

1,383 (2.2)

1,260 (2.0)

1,933 (1.9)

1,678 (1.7)

  1. aUnique pooled beneficiaries from all study denominator years (2014–2017)