Article Document Academic Article Information Content Entity Continuant Continuant Journal Article Entity Entity Generically Dependent Continuant 2025-05-07T23:52:51 RDF description of Variation in clinical preventive services - http://repository.healthpartners.com/individual/document-rn18427 11756 Influenza Vaccines/administration & dosage Practice Patterns, Physicians'/*statistics & numerical data Papanicolaou Test 18092 Effective Clinical Practice Utilization Review <p>CONTEXT: Preventive services are not delivered at optimal rates in primary care settings, and the literature suggests that a systems approach is key to improvement. Studying variation among clinics could help us to understand the extent of system use in practice. PRACTICE PATTERN EXAMINED: The proportion of patients who are up-to-date for preventive services in 44 primary care practices in the Midwest. PREVENTIVE SERVICES EXAMINED: Papanicolaou (Pap) smear, cholesterol testing, mammography, clinical breast examination, blood pressure measurement, influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations, and advice on tobacco use. DATA SOURCE: 6830 patients surveyed after their clinic visit (response rate, 85%). RESULTS: The proportion of patients up-to-date for preventive services varied widely among clinics. For example, up-to-date rates for Pap smear testing ranged from 70% to 93% and 45% to 88% for cholesterol screening. There was little correlation between a clinic's performance on one preventive service (relative to the other 43 clinics) and its performance on others. When correlations between pairs of up-to-date rates within clinics were examined, only 4 of 28 service pairs were positive and statistically significant and only 1 had a correlation coefficient that exceeded 0.5 (for mammography and clinical breast examination). CONCLUSION: There is wide variation in the rates at which various preventive services are performed, both between and within clinics. This variation, which is probably due to a lack of organized prevention systems that cover multiple services, provides a clear target for improvement efforts.<p> Mammography/statistics & numerical data 4 Diagnostic Tests, Routine/*statistics & numerical data Minnesota Blood Pressure Determination/statistics & numerical data Pneumococcal Vaccines/administration & dosage Health Care Surveys Vaginal Smears/statistics & numerical data Cholesterol/blood document-rn18427 public 3 Primary Health Care/*standards Variation in clinical preventive services 2022-02-21T22:48:57.408-06:00 Preventive Health Services/standards/*statistics & numerical data Smoking/adverse effects