A passive electronic medical record‐based cognitive risk calculator predicts neuropsychological performance in older adults
Saket A Saxena, Olivia Hogue, Michael B Rothberg, Anita D Misra‐Hebert, Alexander P Milinovich, Elizabeth R Pfoh, Robyn M Busch, Kamini Krishnan, Robert J Fox, Michael W Kattan, Darlene Floden · 2025
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Saket Saxena and ten co-authors build a thinking risk score that runs in the back of the health record, in a 2025 conference paper. Sorting who will lose ground is hard in first line care, where fancy brain tests are rare. A score that feeds on facts already in the chart could help, if its ground truth is sound.
The team gave 338 first care patients aged sixty and up short thinking tests to set a firm base. They then mined five years of each chart for body measures, ills, drugs, and life facts. A step down model kept the marks that best sorted the test results. Past scores built on chart notes alone were shaky, since notes miss loss. This one is checked by test scores, and it runs with no new work for staff.
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| CREATOR | Saket A Saxena, Olivia Hogue, Michael B Rothberg, Anita D Misra‐Hebert, Alexander P Milinovich, Elizabeth R Pfoh, Robyn M Busch, Kamini Krishnan, Robert J Fox, Michael W Kattan, Darlene Floden |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |