PMID- 33151919
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20201106
LR  - 20201117
IS  - 1545-861X (Electronic)
IS  - 0149-2195 (Print)
IS  - 0149-2195 (Linking)
VI  - 69
IP  - 44
DP  - 2020 Nov 6
TI  - Computerized Capability of Office-Based Physicians to Identify Patients Who Need 
      Preventive or Follow-up Care - United States, 2017.
PG  - 1622-1624
LID - 10.15585/mmwr.mm6944a2 [doi]
AB  - Preventive care or follow-up care have the potential to improve health outcomes, 
      reduce disease in the population, and decrease health care costs in the long-term 
      (1). Approximately one half of persons in the United States receive general 
      recommended preventive services (2,3). Missed physician appointments can hinder 
      the receipt of needed health care (4). With electronic health record (EHR) 
      systems able to improve interaction and communication between patients and 
      providers (5), electronic reminders are used to decrease missed care. These 
      reminders can improve various types of preventive and follow-up care, such as 
      immunizations (6) and cancer screening (7); however, computerized capability must 
      exist to make use of these reminders. To examine this capability among U.S. 
      office-based physicians, data from the National Electronic Health Records Survey 
      (NEHRS) for 2017, the most recent data available, were analyzed. An estimated 
      64.7% of office-based physicians had computerized capability to identify patients 
      who were due for preventive or follow-up care, with 72.9% of primary care 
      physicians and 71.4% of physicians with an EHR system having this capability 
      compared with surgeons (54.8%), nonprimary care physicians (58.5%), and 
      physicians without an EHR system (23.4%). Having an EHR system is associated with 
      the ability to send electronic reminders to increase receipt of preventive or 
      follow-up care, which has been shown to improve patient health outcomes (8).
FAU - Ogburn, Damon F
AU  - Ogburn DF
FAU - Ward, Brian W
AU  - Ward BW
FAU - Ward, Alicia
AU  - Ward A
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20201106
PL  - United States
TA  - MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
JT  - MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report
JID - 7802429
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Aftercare
MH  - Aged
MH  - Aged, 80 and over
MH  - Electronic Health Records/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Female
MH  - *Health Services Needs and Demand
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Physicians/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Physicians' Offices/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - *Preventive Health Services
MH  - Reminder Systems/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - United States
PMC - PMC7643891
COIS- All authors have completed and submitted the International Committee of Medical 
      Journal Editors form for disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. No 
      potential conflicts of interest were disclosed.
EDAT- 2020/11/06 06:00
MHDA- 2020/11/11 06:00
PMCR- 2020/11/06
CRDT- 2020/11/05 17:13
PHST- 2020/11/05 17:13 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/11/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/11/11 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/11/06 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - mm6944a2 [pii]
AID - 10.15585/mmwr.mm6944a2 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2020 Nov 6;69(44):1622-1624. doi: 
      10.15585/mmwr.mm6944a2.