Differences in setting of initial dementia diagnosis among fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accurate and timely diagnosis of dementia is necessary to allow affected individuals to make informed decisions and access appropriate resources. When dementia goes undetected until a hospitalization or nursing home stay, this could reflect delayed diagnosis or misdiagnosis, and may reflect underlying disparities in healthcare access.

Methods

In this retrospective cohort study, we used 2012-2020 Medicare claims and other administrative data to examine variation in setting of dementia diagnosis among fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries with an initial claims-based dementia diagnosis in 2016. We used multinomial logistic regression to evaluate the association of person and geographic factors with diagnosis location, and Cox proportional hazards regression to exam

SUBMITTER: White EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11735312 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature