TY  - JOUR
AU  - Becker, Cornelia
AU  - Herschung, Lucas
AU  - Gomm, Willy
AU  - Haenisch, Britta
TI  - Dementia diagnosis and prescription of antidementia drugs: An analysis of German claims data (2006-2016).
JO  - Journal of Alzheimer's disease
VL  - 104
IS  - 3
SN  - 1387-2877
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - IOS Press
M1  - DZNE-2025-00524
SP  - 698 - 708
PY  - 2025
AB  - BackgroundUse of claims data allows to analyze health service characteristics of dementia, which is one of the most frequent cognitive disorders in Germany and worldwide.ObjectiveThe study aimed at describing the variability in dementia diagnoses and in antidementia drug prescription pattern.MethodsWe analyzed data from a population-based sample of one of the largest German statutory health insurances. The cohort included 30,403 patients with incident dementia diagnosis from 2006-2016. We described frequencies, patterns, and interrelations of diagnoses (Alzheimer's disease (AD), vascular dementia, other specific dementia, unspecified dementia (UD), antidementia drugs (ADD), and professional groups. We described switches in diagnostic and medication patterns between index quarter and following quarters, and evaluated the prescriptions in relation to national guidelines.ResultsA total of 87
KW  - Humans
KW  - Germany: epidemiology
KW  - Dementia: diagnosis
KW  - Dementia: drug therapy
KW  - Dementia: epidemiology
KW  - Male
KW  - Female
KW  - Aged
KW  - Aged, 80 and over
KW  - Nootropic Agents: therapeutic use
KW  - Drug Prescriptions: statistics & numerical data
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - Cohort Studies
KW  - Practice Patterns, Physicians': statistics & numerical data
KW  - Insurance Claim Review
KW  - Alzheimer Disease: drug therapy
KW  - Alzheimer Disease: diagnosis
KW  - Alzheimer Disease: epidemiology
KW  - Alzheimer's disease (Other)
KW  - aged (Other)
KW  - drugs (Other)
KW  - epidemiology (Other)
KW  - general practice (Other)
KW  - Nootropic Agents (NLM Chemicals)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:40095481
DO  - DOI:10.1177/13872877251319468
UR  - https://pub.dzne.de/record/277997
ER  -