title: The Health Outreach Program for the Elderly (HOPE) database.
abstract: The purpose of the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center's Health Outreach Program for the Elderly (HOPE), is to facilitate research to solve the problems of Alzheimer disease (AD). The HOPE project has supported the development of a database that can be made available to qualified researchers who are studying AD. This article provides a brief introduction to databases and database concepts. In addition, the database created by the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center is described. The structure of the database is presented and the datapoints it contains are described. The procedures for requesting a database query are outlined.
authors.affiliation: Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetts 01730, USA.
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authors.lastname: Siwek
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D017028:Caregivers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D007253:Information Centers; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D009460:Neurologic Examination / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012106:Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012984:Software; D014481:United States