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Utility of the Dependence Scale in dementia: validity, meaningfulness, and health economic considerations

Overview of attention for article published in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, August 2018
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Title
Utility of the Dependence Scale in dementia: validity, meaningfulness, and health economic considerations
Published in
Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, August 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13195-018-0414-7
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Carolyn W. Zhu, Bote Gosse Bruinsma, Yaakov Stern

Abstract

The concept of dependence has been proposed as a unified representation of disease severity to quantify and stage disease progression in a manner more informative to patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers. This paper provides a review of the Dependence Scale (DS) as a quantitative measure of Alzheimer's disease severity, its properties as an outcome measure, a metric of disease progression, and a correlate of medical costs. The literature supports the notion that the DS is related to, but distinct from, key severity measures, including cognition, function, and behavior, and captures the full spectrum of patient needs. It also presents as a useful measure for assessing disease progression. Results underscore the importance of the DS as a unique endpoint in Alzheimer's disease clinical trials, providing important information about the impact of therapeutic interventions. The DS also is a useful measure for economic evaluation of novel interventions aimed at delaying progression.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 27 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 19%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 11%
Student > Bachelor 3 11%
Other 2 7%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 4%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 9 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 4 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 15%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 7%
Psychology 2 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 4%
Other 5 19%
Unknown 9 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 September 2018.
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#1,972,954
of 23,099,576 outputs
Outputs from Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
#406
of 1,252 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#42,853
of 330,840 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
#29
of 42 outputs
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