The five-minute image-based screening tool was designed at Albert Einstein College and was designed to reduce disparities in pre-dementia and dementia diagnosis. For the study, 6,600 participants will be enrolled across 22 locations in New York and Indiana, according to a Dec. 8 Albert Einstein news release.
The EHR system will prompt primary care teams to deliver the test.
“Primary care physicians are on the front lines of caring for those with dementia, but it is challenging for them to make diagnoses — in fact, more than 50% of dementia cases are missed during primary care appointments,” Malaz Boustani, MD, co-principal investigator on the grant and the founding director of the Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Science at the IU School of Medicine, said. “The 5-Cog screening paradigm seeks to address this challenge by providing a tool that does not require special equipment or training, is inexpensive, available in English and Spanish, and takes only five minutes.”
