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Development and Validation of eRADAR: A Tool Using EHR Data to Detect Unrecognized Dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Early recognition of dementia would allow patients and their families to receive care earlier in the disease process, potentially improving care management and patient outcomes, yet nearly half of patients with dementia are undiagnosed. Our aim was to develop and validate an electronic health record (EHR)-based tool to help detect patients with unrecognized dementia (EHR Risk of Alzheimer's and Dementia Assessment Rule [eRADAR]).

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Kaiser Permanente Washington (KPWA), an integrated healthcare delivery system.

Participants

A total of 16 665 visits among 4330 participants in the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) study, who undergo a comprehensive process to detect and diagnose dementia every 2?years and have linked KPWA EHR data, divided into development (70%) and validation (30%) samples.

Measurements

EHR predictors included demographics, medical diagnoses, vital signs, healthcare utilization, and medications within the previous 2?years. Unrecognized dementia was defined as detection in ACT before documentation in the KPWA EHR (ie, lack of dementia or memory loss diagnosis codes or dementia medication fills).

Results

Overall, 1015 ACT visits resulted in a diagnosis of incident dementia, of which 498 (49%) were unrecognized in the KPWA EHR. The final 31-predictor model included markers of dementia-related symptoms (eg, psychosis diagnoses, antidepressant fills), healthcare utilization pattern (eg, emergency department visits), and dementia risk factors (eg, cerebrovascular disease, diabetes). Discrimination was good in the development (C statistic = .78; 95% confidence interval [CI] = .76-.81) and validation (C statistic = .81; 95% CI = .78-.84) samples, and calibration was good based on plots of predicted vs observed risk. If patients with scores in the top 5% were flagged for additional evaluation, we estimate that 1 in 6 would have dementia.

Conclusion

The eRADAR tool uses existing EHR data to detect patients with good accuracy who may have unrecognized dementia. J Am Geriatr Soc 68:103-111, 2019.

SUBMITTER: Barnes DE

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7094818 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Development and Validation of eRADAR: A Tool Using EHR Data to Detect Unrecognized Dementia.

Barnes Deborah E DE Zhou Jing J Walker Rod L RL Larson Eric B EB Lee Sei J SJ Boscardin W John WJ Marcum Zachary A ZA Dublin Sascha S

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 20191014 1

<h4>Objectives</h4>Early recognition of dementia would allow patients and their families to receive care earlier in the disease process, potentially improving care management and patient outcomes, yet nearly half of patients with dementia are undiagnosed. Our aim was to develop and validate an electronic health record (EHR)-based tool to help detect patients with unrecognized dementia (EHR Risk of Alzheimer's and Dementia Assessment Rule [eRADAR]).<h4>Design</h4>Retrospective cohort study.<h4>Se ...[more]

PMID: 31612463

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Dataset Information

Development and Validation of eRADAR: A Tool Using EHR Data to Detect Unrecognized Dementia.

Objectives

Design

Setting

Participants

Measurements

Results

Conclusion

Publications

Development and Validation of eRADAR: A Tool Using EHR Data to Detect Unrecognized Dementia.

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