Letter
A study of patients living in institutes may bias the findings
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BMJ
1995;311:126.1
- John M Starr
- Senior registrar in geriatric medicine Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 0HS
EDITOR,--Alewijn Ott and colleagues report their estimates of the prevalence of dementia in a suburb of Rotterdam and state that the fact that 27% of the potential population was unscreened was likely to lead to an underestimate of the …
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