Screening and Prevention Flashcards
What are the factors responsible for poor health care?
Genetics - 25%
Environment - 16%
Life Style - 48%
Limited Medical Care - 11%
What is the natural course of disease?
Exposure -> preclinical disease -> clinical disease -> complications -> death
How often is the influenza vaccine administered?
annually
How often if the pneumococcal vaccine given?
It is given to person after age 65
When is the tetanus Vaccination given?
every 10 years
Chemoprophylaxis is given with what?
Aspirin
Before providing medical care services what must occur?
Correct identification of patient
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Hypdertension Screening Coronary Artery Disease Screening Diabetes Screening Breast Cancer Screening Colon Screening
In evaluation prevention services, what are the two things that must be examined?
Screening test (accuracy of test and effectiveness of early detection) Immunization/Chemoprophylaxis (efficacy of vaccine/chemoprophylaxis and effectiveness)
What is the reason for screening likely disease?
- To separate those most likely to have disease from those least likely
- To exclude or confirm a diagnosis
Community, provider’s office, hospital, and work place are all examples of?
Screening Sites
What type of screening are available in the community?
Prevalence survey
screening high risk populations
What type of screening is available in a provider’s office?
Health and risk assessment
Diagnostic testing
What are the appropriate reasons for screening?
- Disease must be serious
- Treatment before symptoms occur more beneficial
- High Prevalence of preclinical disease
For a health screen to be accepted what are the 4 qualities it must have?
- Affordable
- Acceptable to the public
- Conducted in confidence
- Treatment for the disease is available
How should a screening test be evaluated?
It should be evaluated based on reliability, accuracy, and yield
What does it mean for a test to have reliability?
Performs consistently when given to individual under same conditions
What are the threats to reliability?
- Variations inherent in subjects (intra and inter)
- Variations in method
- Observer variation (intra and inter)
How can you improve reliability?
Standardization, training, and periodic checks
Test-retest, % agreement, kappa statistic
What is the Kappa statistic?
[(% observed agreement)-(% agreement expected by chance alone)]/[100%-(%agreement expected by chance alone)]