States That Require Reporting To DMV Show Underdiagnoses Of Dementia

Primary care clinical professionals (PCPs) diagnose fewer consumers with dementia in the four states that require PCPs to report the affected consumers to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) than PCPs in the 14 states that require drivers to self-report the diagnosis. The likelihood of underdiagnosis was 12.4% in the mandatory-report states, and 7.8% in the self-report states. In the 32 states and District of Columbia that have no explicit dementia reporting mandates, the likelihood of underdiagnosis was 7.7%.

The researchers proposed that in the four states (California, Delaware, Oregon, and Pennsylvania) with mandatory . . .