EHR screening tool may indicate cognitive impairment in older adults

Key takeaways:

About 50% of enrollees with high eRADAR scores had MCI or dementia.

Only 30% of participants completed their visits.

The researchers recognized the need for outreach to underrepresented communities.

An electronic screening tool shows promise for detecting cognitive impairment and dementia risk in older adults, but outreach is needed to boost participation to assess its feasibility in a primary care setting, per to a presentation.

The electronic health record Risk of Alzheimer’s and Dementia Assessment Rule (eRADAR)” “is an [electronic health record]-based risk score to identify people who are at high risk of having undiagnosed dementia,” Deborah E. Barnes, PhD, MPH, epidemiologist in the Weill Institute for Neurosciences at the University of California, San Francisc