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Aligning With Patient-Centered Medical Home Standards: Depression Screening In Primary Care, Elizabeth Segura
Aligning With Patient-Centered Medical Home Standards: Depression Screening In Primary Care, Elizabeth Segura
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Abstract
Problem: The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a model of care that improves the quality and experience of care and decreases cost. Use of a validated depression screening tool for adult patients is a PCMH certification requirement. The purpose of this quality initiative was to obtain baseline data when a depression screening tool was utilized among adult patients in an internal medicine clinic within a Midwestern public health department.
Methods: This was a quality improvement project utilizing a descriptive and observational design. A retrospective medical record review was used to assess the rate of depression screening utilizing the …