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. 2010 Jul;87(4):703-12.
doi: 10.1007/s11524-010-9464-2.

Predictors of depression screening rates of nurses receiving a personal digital assistant-based reminder to screen

Rebecca Schnall  1 , Leanne M Currie, Haomiao Jia, Rita Marie John, Nam-Ju Lee, Olivia Velez, Suzanne Bakken
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Predictors of depression screening rates of nurses receiving a personal digital assistant-based reminder to screen

Rebecca Schnall et al. J Urban Health. 2010 Jul.

Abstract

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.

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