𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫 10% 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘩𝘶𝘣 (https://lnkd.in/gMxKTHCn) 𝘸𝘦𝘣𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘱𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.
In new research published (Case Definition for Diagnosed Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias in Medicare | Geriatrics | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network) today by first author Kan Z. Gianattasio, PhD, our team at NORC at the University of Chicago, and our partner at George Washington University MHA, we estimated that in 2019, 5.4 million Medicare beneficiaries had diagnoses indicating likely or highly likely dementia, and an additional 2.6 million people had diagnoses indicating possible dementia.
We used the case definitions established in the paper to create the Dementia Datahub (https://lnkd.in/gMxKTHCn), a website that provides information on diagnosed prevalence and incidence, rates of mortality and COVID-19 infection among prevalent cases, and all-cause payments for fee-for-service beneficiaries. We hope that the many talented dementia investigators in the field can use the data to bend the curve of increasing rates of dementia in the United States.
The study was funded through an unrestricted research grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health. The content of both the paper and the DataHub is solely the responsibility of the project team and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
So many people to thank for this enormous undertaking. Our project collaborators Melinda Power at GW, Qian Gu, Carrie Bao, Sam Knisely, and Autumn Liu at KPMG. From NORC at the University of Chicago (alphabetical by first name) Alex Hartzman, Alex Nesmith, Anna-Leigh Ong, Benjamin Reist, Eric Young, Erin Cutroneo, Eun Bergman, Fernando Agudelo, J. Gordon Wright, Jaleh Montazer, Jason W., @johnburkholder, John Wittenborn, Jorge Gallardo, Josh Borton, Kan Z. Gianattasio, PhD, Kiegan Rice, Liz Fitzgerald, Mark Sheehy, Anmol Sanghera, Mu-Hsien Hsieh Lee, Neerja Talreja, Nola du Toit, Núria Adell Raventós, Patrick Hollick, Peter Herman, Phoebe Lamuda, Ryan Murphy, Songmei Li, Ph.D. PMP MCSD AWS GISP, Sydney Bell, Tina Abraham, TJ Fulfer, Usman Hafeez, BSc(Eng), MBA, PMP, Williette Nyanue.
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