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ArticlePopulation health management2024

Use of a Blood Biomarker Test Improves Economic Utility in the Evaluation of Older Patients Presenting with Cognitive Impairment.

William J Canestaro, Randall J Bateman, David M Holtzman, Mark Monane, Joel B Braunstein

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Article in Population health management, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

William J CanestaroDepartment of Management and Organization, Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Randall J BatemanDepartment of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
David M HoltzmanDepartment of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Mark MonaneC2N Diagnostics, LLC, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1550-4415
Joel B BraunsteinC2N Diagnostics, LLC, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

More than 16 million Americans living with cognitive impairment warrant a diagnostic evaluation to determine the cause of this disorder. The recent availability of disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is expected to significantly drive demand for such diagnostic testing. Accurate, accessible, and affordable methods are needed. Blood biomarkers (BBMs) offer advantages over usual care amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers in these regards. This study used a budget impact model to assess the economic utility of the PrecivityAD

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BiomarkersAgedAged, 80 and overAlzheimer DiseaseCognitive DysfunctionCost-Benefit AnalysisFemaleHumansMalePositron-Emission TomographyUnited StatesBiomarkersAlzheimer's diseaseblood biomarkerbudget impact modelcost analysisdiagnosiseconomic utility

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PMID38546435
PMCPMC11304753

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