BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Although preventive dental visits are considered important for maintaining pediatric oral health, there is relatively little research showing that they reduce subsequent nonpreventive dental visits or costs. At least 1 study seemed to find that early preventive dental care is associated with more restorative and emergency visits. Previous studies are limited by their in...

This study explores task- and healthcare model-specific differences in clinicians' information needs which can affect the uptake of decision support. Results of a web experiment involving 104 general practitioners are presented. Respondents indicated that guidelines were the most important source of information with almost equal weighting for acute, chronic and preventive care. A patient's qual...

OBJECTIVE To describe the utilization and associated factors for preventive and curative care utilization among children affiliated to the Medical Insurance for a New Generation (SMNG). MATERIALS AND METHODS Data from the 2009 National Survey of SMNG was analyzed. RESULTS The analysis represented 1,316,867 children; 25% of urban and 37.5% of rural mothers that took their children to well-ch...

BACKGROUND Having usual source of care has been associated with improved receipt of preventive services and control of chronic diseases (such as hypertension, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia). The objective of this study was to examine whether having usual source of care is associated with improved receipt of preventive services and control of chronic diseases. METHODS We searched MEDLINE,...

Evidence on the efficacy of preventive procedures in oral health care has not been matched by uptake of prevention in clinical practice. Reducing oral disease in the population reduces the size of the future market for treatment. Hence a provider's intention to adopt prevention in clinical practice may be offset by the financial implications of such behaviour. Effective prevention may therefore...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of a managed care-based patient reminder/recall system on immunization rates and preventive care visits among low-income adolescents. METHODS We conducted a randomized controlled trial between December 2009 and December 2010 that assigned adolescents aged 11-17 years to one of three groups: mailed letter, telephone reminders, or control. Publicly insured youths ...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have documented racial disparities in delivery of health care treatment services, but there is little information to determine whether similar disparities exist in the delivery of preventive services. OBJECTIVE To determine if disparities exist in preventive service delivery to non-Hispanic white patients and black patients in primary care. RESEARCH DESIGN Multim...

INTRODUCTION In 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced the Quality Bonus Payment Demonstration, a pay-for-performance (P4P) program, into Medicare Advantage plans. Previous studies documented racial/ethnic disparities in receipt of care among participants in these plans. The objective of this study was to determine whether P4P incentives have affected these dispar...

In the Nordic countries much health care and preventive medicine takes place in general practice. And among general practitioners (GPs) there is an ongoing debate on whether they should devote more or less time to preventive measures and health care. There has been much debate on whether the benefi ts of preventive health care truly outweigh the costs and the adverse effects. Some GPs fear that...

INTRODUCTION In the traditional model of care, an annual visit was dedicated to the task of assessing and delivering preventive care. With the move away from annual physicals, primary care physicians are addressing preventive services at every clinic visit often aided by electronic clinical decision support (CDS) systems. METHODS We conducted a case study of a visit-driven CDS system in use a...