Estimated Dementia Diagnosis Rate (Aged 65 and Over)
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The rate of persons aged 65 and older with a recorded diagnosis of dementia per person estimated to have dementia given the characteristics of the population and the age and sex specific prevalence rates of the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study II, expressed as a percentage with 95 percent confidence intervals.
Numerator
Number of people aged 65 and older with a recorded dementia diagnosis.
Denominator
Estimated number of people aged 65 and over expected to have dementia.
Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
None
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Data is from NHS Digital Primary Care Dementia Data Publication, data is automatically collected in GP Clinical Systems and extracted via the General Practice Extraction Service (GPES).
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Online as Dementia surveillance factsheets published on fingertips.phe.org.uk/documents/DementiaSurveillanceEngland.html, also Online at fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/dementia/data#page/6/gid/1938133052/pat/159/par/K02000001/ati/15/are/E92000001/iid/92949/age/27/sex/4/cat/-1/ctp/-1/yrr/1/cid/4/tbm/1.