Annual Wellness Visits and Early Dementia Diagnosis Among Older Adults Receiving Medicare Benefits
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Abstract
Abstract Background Early recognition of cognitive impairment (CI) and timely diagnoses of mild CI (MCI) and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD) are key to optimal dementia care. No previous research has examined the effects of Medicare annual wellness visits (AWVs) on early CI recognition among Medicare beneficiaries. Here, we assessed the association between incident diagnosis at MCI, moderate or severe ADRD stages in 2017‐2020, and having a Medicare AWV in the three years prior to diagnosis. Method This population‐based, case‐control study used 100% Texas fee‐for‐service Medicare data from 2014 to 2020; population: Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with incident MCI or ADRD from 2017 to 2020. The exposure is Medicare AWVs. The primary outcome is MCI, moderate or severe ADRD status by ICD‐9‐CM and ICD‐10‐CM codes. We performed a multinomial logistic regression model to examine the association. Result Medicare beneficiaries (n = 197,356) who had an AWV were 23‐66% more likely to be diagnosed at the MCI stage and 8‐30% more likely to be diagnosed at the moderate ADRD stage compared to diagnoses at the severe ADRD stage relative to those who did not have an AWV. There was a dose‐response relationship; as the number of AWV visits in the three years increased, the magnitude of the likelihood of early diagnosis increased. Conclusion This study suggests that receipt of a Medicare AWV is associated with increased identification of early CI.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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