RESUMO
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are ideally positioned to identify and address health-related social needs, but little is understood about the relationship between social risk factor (SRF) screening and health outcomes. We studied 1352 FQHCs from the 2019 Uniform Data System. Ordinary least squares regression was used to estimate the relationship between SRF screening and the percentage of patients with adequately controlled diabetes and hypertension. Results show 71% of the FQHCs in the sample collected SRFs. FQHCs' screened for SRFs had higher percentages of patients with adequately controlled diabetes (69.5% vs 67.0%, P < .001) and hypertension (63.8% vs 59.4%, P < .001) relative to FQHCs not collecting SRFs.
Assuntos
Diabetes Mellitus , Humanos , Fatores de Risco , Feminino , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estados Unidos , Diabetes Mellitus/epidemiologia , Hipertensão/epidemiologia , Hipertensão/diagnóstico , Programas de Rastreamento , Determinantes Sociais da Saúde , Adulto , Provedores de Redes de Segurança , Idoso , Avaliação de Resultados em Cuidados de SaúdeAssuntos
Competência Clínica , Atenção à Saúde/métodos , Atenção à Saúde/tendências , Equipe de Assistência ao Paciente/tendências , Pesquisa Biomédica/métodos , Pesquisa Biomédica/normas , Pesquisa Biomédica/tendências , Competência Clínica/normas , Atenção à Saúde/normas , Humanos , Equipe de Assistência ao Paciente/normas , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
Clinical practice guidelines can potentially lead to reductions in healthcare costs and improved patient outcomes if adopted by physicians into their clinical practice. This research study provides data that gives healthcare administrators a basic understanding of how physicians perceive clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and gives practical suggestions to obtain physician adherence to CPGs.