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Elderly underwent 1) the informant QDRS, 2) the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) as the gold standard diagnosis, 3) the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), and 4) the Ascertain Dementia 8 (AD8) as comparisons to the QDRS. The extent to which the QDRS may reduce the recruitment cost (time) of clinical trials was also calculated. Results: The QDRS had excellent internal consistency (Cronbach alpha\u200a=\u200a0.939). It correlated highly with the CDR-global (R\u200a=\u200a0.897), CDR Sum-of-Boxes (R\u200a=\u200a0.915), MMSE (R\u200a=\u200a\u20130.848), and the AD8 (R\u200a=\u200a0.747), showing good concurrent validity. With an optimal cut-off of 1.5 for MCI (sensitivity 85.2%, specificity 96.3%) and 6 for dementia (sensitivity 90.1%, specificity 89.2%), the QDRS achieved a higher overall accuracy of 85.0%, as compared to MMSE (71.2%) and AD8 (73.4%). A simulated clinical trial recruitment scenario demonstrated that pre-screening with the QDRS followed by a confirmatory CDR would reduce the time needed to identify NCI subjects by 23.3% and MCI subjects by 75.3%. 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