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Changes in health service use for adults with Dementia, Parkinson disease during pandemic

JAMA Health Forum

Peer-Reviewed Publication

JAMA Network

What The Study Did: Researchers examined changes during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada in health service use and the rate of death among people with dementia, Parkinson disease and older adults without neurodegenerative disease.

Authors: Susan E. Bronskill, of ICES in Toronto, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.4599)

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