Predictors of depression screening rates of nurses receiving a personal digital assistant-based reminder to screen.
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2010-07-09
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The purpose of this study was to determine if race ethnicity payer type or nursing specialty affected depression screening rates in primary care settings in which nurses received a reminder to screen The sample comprised 4 160 encounters in which nurses enrolled in advanced practice training were prompted to screen for depression using the Patient Health Questionnaire PHQ 2 PHQ 9 integrated into a personal digital assistant based clinical decision support system for depression screening and management Nurses chose to screen in response to 52 5 of reminders Adjusted odds ratios showed that payer type and nurse specialty but not race ethnicity significantly predicted proportion of patients screened