Few Americans Receive All High-Priority, Appropriate Clinical Preventive Services

Amanda Borsky; Chunliu Zhan; Therese Miller; Quyen Ngo-Metzger; Arlene S Bierman; David Meyers

doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2017.1248

Few Americans Receive All High-Priority, Appropriate Clinical Preventive Services

Health Aff (Millwood). 2018 Jun;37(6):925-928. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2017.1248.

Authors

Amanda Borsky¹, Chunliu Zhan², Therese Miller³, Quyen Ngo-Metzger⁴, Arlene S Bierman⁵, David Meyers⁶

Affiliations

¹ Amanda Borsky ( amanda.borsky@ahrq.hhs.gov ) is a dissemination and implementation adviser in the Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in Rockville, Maryland.
² Chunliu Zhan is a health scientist administrator at AHRQ.
³ Therese Miller is deputy director of the Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement, AHRQ.
⁴ Quyen Ngo-Metzger is scientific director, US Preventive Services Task Force Program, Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement, AHRQ.
⁵ Arlene S. Bierman is director of the Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement, AHRQ.
⁶ David Meyers is chief medical officer at AHRQ.

PMID: 29863918
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2017.1248

Abstract

As of 2015, only 8 percent of US adults ages thirty-five and older had received all of the high-priority, appropriate clinical preventive services recommended for them. Nearly 5 percent of adults did not receive any such services. Further delivery system-level efforts are needed to increase the use of preventive services.

Keywords: Evidence-Based Medicine; Health Promotion/Disease Prevention; Primary Care.

MeSH terms

Adult
Age Factors
Confidence Intervals
Cross-Sectional Studies
Health Promotion / organization & administration*
Health Services Needs and Demand*
Humans
Male
Mass Screening / statistics & numerical data
Men's Health
Middle Aged
Preventive Health Services / statistics & numerical data*
Quality Assurance, Health Care*
Risk Assessment
Sex Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires*
United States
Women's Health