Screening initiated by medical assistants resulted in significantly more documented screens than screening delivered by physicians (74% vs 9%, P<0.001).CONCLUSIONS: IPV screening is an important, but underdelivered service.
We evaluated the ability of two educational interventions to increase screening for eating disorders in pediatric primary care practice, predicting that the "active-learning" group would have an increase in documented screening after intervention.
Of these, 38% had electronically documented screening within 24 months.
In a US study of emergency department medical records, [ 52] it was reported that only 9% of health care professionals documented screening for IPV.
Data analysis of the fully documented screening and sequencing results should therefore be employed a posteriori, by using all available database and phylogenetic information [ 9, 10].
In the case of PSA and DRE for example, low rates of documented screening are understandable given that both procedures are not supposed to be performed; thus the documented rates for PSA and DRE observed in our study are 'inappropriate' according to CTFPHC.
Of 3,564 documented screening days with the CAM-ICU, it was positive in 1,459 (41%); in only 120 (8%) of these CAM-ICU-positive days there was a documented action or treatment started for delirium.
It is thus desirable to evaluate if benefits arising from saved resource allocation to more cost-effective interventions would make acceptable to reduce or to stop screening in 50-year-old or older women with a negative documented screening history.
However, according to insurance scheme data, people who declined were less likely to have a documented screening occult blood test (48.1% (759/1577) v 36.1% (2297/6369)) or screening colonoscopy (13.6% (215/1577) v 6.8% (434/6369)) during the three year pre-study period.
Documented screening rates were significantly higher among responders as compared to non-responders within the mail (86.2% vs 62.1%) and telephone (75.2% vs 55.4%) modes (p < 0.0001 for each).
