Re: Time to nursing home predictor

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Just found the link:

http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/277/24/1933.4.extract

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> I read the link posted here recently to the Alzheimer's prediciton for time to

nursing home/death. I became alarmed and did some more research pertaining to

this study. According to what I found, there was some concern over accuracy for

this test because of the high chance some of the subjects actually had LBD

instead of Alzheimer's and LBD progresses more rapidly.

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> If I understood correctly, that would mean our LO would be at the quicker end

of the scale when it comes to placement and death.

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> The orginal test is at this link:

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> http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/sergievsky/predictor.html

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> I'm sorry I didn't grab the link for the other study I found. I will attempt

to locat it again.

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