Erschienen in:
23.07.2020 | Concise Research Report
Use of Report Cards to Increase Primary Care Physician Depression Screening
verfasst von:
Isabel Yin, BS, Wen Wan, PhD, Erin M. Staab, MPH, Lisa Vinci, MD, MS, Neda Laiteerapong, MD, MS
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 7/2021
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Excerpt
In 2016, the US Preventative Services Task Force (USPTF) recommended universal screening for depression in all adult patients in the primary care setting.
1 However, depression screening rates of primary care patients remain low,
2 likely due to physicians’ reliance on clinical intuition rather than validated screening tools to inform their treatment decisions for depression.
3 A promising non-financial strategy to change physician behavior has been the use of social comparison feedback via report cards.
4 Our objective was to determine whether or not physician peer comparison report cards would increase depression screening rates in a general internal medicine clinic. …