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Volume 8, Issue 6 , Pages 396-403 , July 2007

Dementia, Lower Respiratory Tract Infection, and Long-Term Mortality

Jenny T. van der Steen, PhD
- EMGO Institute of the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Public and Occupational Health, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Nursing Home Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- J.T.v.d.S. and R.L.K. had full access to all the data in the study and they take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analyses.
- J.T.v.d.S.’s role in the study included study conception and design, acquisition of the data, analysis, and interpretation of the data, and drafting the manuscript.
- Address correspondence to Jenny T. van der Steen, PhD, VU University Medical Center, EMGO Institute, Department of Nursing Home Medicine and Department of Public and Occupational Health, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
David R. Mehr, MD, MS
- Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO.
- D.R.M. and R.L.K. were involved in study conception and design, acquisition of the data, and interpretation of the data.
Robin L. Kruse, PhD, MSPH
- Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO.
- J.T.v.d.S. and R.L.K. had full access to all the data in the study and they take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analyses.
- D.R.M. and R.L.K. were involved in study conception and design, acquisition of the data, and interpretation of the data.
Miel W. Ribbe, MD, PhD
- EMGO Institute of the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Nursing Home Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- G.v.d.W. and M.W.R. were involved in study conception and design, and supervision.
Gerrit van der Wal, MD, PhD
- EMGO Institute of the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Public and Occupational Health, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- G.v.d.W. and M.W.R. were involved in study conception and design, and supervision.

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All authors were involved in obtaining funding, critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content, and approval of the final manuscript for publication.

This study was funded by the National Institute of Aging, grant number AG18335, by ZonMw, The Netherlands, grant number 1365.0006/98-10-008 (2000-42), and by the Departments of Nursing Home Medicine, and Public and Occupational Health of the EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam. The Dutch study was originally funded by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sport (VWS, grant numbers 37851, 37852, 37853, 37832) and the Society “Het Zonnehuis.” The US LRI study was originally funded by the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research grant number HS08551 and a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Award to D.R.M. from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. None of the authors have a conflict of interest in this study.

The study sponsors had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; and preparation, review or approval of the manuscript.

PII: S1525-8610(07)00204-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2007.03.005

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