Identifying Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia using home health OASIS assessments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Home health services are an important site of care following hospitalization among Medicare beneficiaries, providing health assessments that can be leveraged to detect diagnoses that are not available in other data sources. In this work, we aimed to develop a parsimonious and accurate algorithm using home health outcome and assessment information set (OASIS) measures to identify Medicare beneficiaries with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (ADRD).

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries with a complete OASIS start of care assessment in 2014, 2016, 2018, or 2019 to determine how well the items from various versions could identify those with an ADRD diagnosis by the assessment date. The prediction model was d

SUBMITTER: Belanger E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10592468 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature