ShuxinD/pr-pm-adrd-pd-survival

The association between PR, PM and first hospitalization with ADRD / PD

study population

2000-2016 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged above 65 years old.

outcome

first hospitalization with ADRD

exposure

particle radiation and PM2.5

study design

survival analysis: follow every beneficiaries until their first hospitalizaiton with ADRD

statistical approach

Cox proportional hazard with causal mediation analysis framework

coding process

prepare the dataset

Medicare Part A (in-patient records) is pre-processed as described in https://github.com/ShuxinD/ADRDdata