Optimizing primary care for cognitive impairment screening using agile implementation
Diana Summanwar, Jared R. Brosch, Dustin B. Hammers, Nicole R Fowler, Deanna R Willis · 2025
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Diana Summanwar and four co-authors wrote a 2025 study on making cognitive screening actually happen in busy primary care. Screening stalls on time pressure, provider unease, and shaky diagnostic confidence. The team applied agile implementation, a method borrowing from behavioral economics and complexity science, built on confirming real demand, adapting locally, and running rapid test cycles.
Seven varied clinics joined a year-long program under an international Alzheimer's preparedness initiative. The core task was offering a digital cognitive assessment to every patient aged 65 and over. Workflows and the screening tool itself were co-designed with clinic staff. Improvement sprints then tuned the process in place. The study explores which workflow shapes survive contact with real clinics. Early detection of mild impairment is the prize.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Diana Summanwar, Jared R. Brosch, Dustin B. Hammers, Nicole R Fowler, Deanna R Willis |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |