Resource Use and Disease Course in dementia - Nursing Home (REDIC-NH), a longitudinal cohort study; design and patient characteristics at admission to Norwegian nursing homes

Table 5 Cognition and prevalence of dementia at admission to nursing homes (NH)

		All patients n=696	Patients with dementia n=583	Patients without dementia n=113	p-value*
Prevalence of Dementia¹	No dementia	17 (2.4)
	Mild Cognitive Impairment	96 (13.8)
	Dementia	583 (83.8)
Dementia sub-types¹	Alzheimer disease (AD)		414 (71.0)
	Vascular Dementia (VaD)		46 (7.9)
	Mixed AD/VaD		11 (1.9)
	Frontotemporal Dementia		47 (8.1)
	Lewy Body Dementia		22 (3.7)
	Other		43 (7.4)
Dementia diagnosis according to NH-records			326 (55.9)	8 (7.1)	<0.001^b)
Cognition	MMSE sum (n) mean (SD)	(611) 16.0 (6.3)	(511) 14.7 (5.5)	(100) 22.6 (5.6)	<0.001^a)
	CDR-SOB (n) mean (SD)	(687) 10.3 (4.3)	(576) 11.2 (3.6)	(111) 5.3 (4.2)	<0.001^a)
	SIB-8 sum (n) mean (SD)	(601) 12.2 (3.7)	(502) 11.8 (3.8)	(99) 14.6 (2.7)	<0.001^a)
	IQCODE score > 3.44	121 (17.4)	115 (95)	6 (5)	<0.001^b)
	FAST value ≥ 4 n/N	472/540 (87.4)	449/434 (96.7)	91/38 (41.8)	<0.001^b)

All figures in (%) if not otherwise stated
MMSE Mini-Mental-State-Examination
SD standard deviation
CDR-SOB Clinical Dementia Rating Scale sum of boxes
SIB-8 Severe Impairment Battery, the eight-question version
IQCODE Informant Questionnaire of Cognitive Decline in the Elderly
FAST Functional Assessment Staging of Alzheimer Disease
*p-value for difference between patients with and without dementia
¹ Assessed by two experienced researchers/clinicians independently based on all given information
^a) Independent Student’s t-test
^b) Pearson Chi-square Test
^c) Fisher’s Exact Test

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