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An Experience of Qualified Preventive Screening: Shiraz Smart Screening Software | ||
Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences | ||
مقاله 8، دوره 40، شماره 1، فروردین 2015، صفحه 51-57 اصل مقاله (285.85 K) | ||
نوع مقاله: Original Article(s) | ||
نویسندگان | ||
Parisa Islami Parkoohi؛ Hashem Zare؛ Gholamreza Abdollahifard* | ||
Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran | ||
چکیده | ||
Background: Computerized preventive screening software is a cost effective intervention tool to address non-communicable chronic diseases. Shiraz Smart Screening Software (SSSS) was developed as an innovative tool for qualified screening. It allows simultaneous smart screening of several high-burden chronic diseases and supports reminder notification functionality. The extent in which SSSS affects screening quality is also described.Methods: Following software development, preventive screening and annual health examinations of 261 school staff (Medical School of Shiraz, Iran) was carried out in a software-assisted manner. To evaluate the quality of the software-assisted screening, we used quasi-experimental study design and determined coverage, irregular attendance and inappropriateness proportions in relation with the manual and software-assisted screening as well as the corresponding number of requested tests.Results: In manual screening method, 27% of employees were covered (with 94% irregular attendance) while by software-assisted screening, the coverage proportion was 79% (attendance status will clear after the specified time). The frequency of inappropriate screening test requests, before the software implementation, was 41.37% for fasting plasma glucose, 41.37% for lipid profile, 0.84% for occult blood, 0.19% for flexible sigmoidoscopy/colonoscopy, 35.29% for Pap smear, 19.20% for mammography and 11.2% for prostate specific antigen. All of the above were corrected by the software application. In total, 366 manual screening and 334 software-assisted screening tests were requested.Conclusion: SSSS is an innovative tool to improve the quality of preventive screening plans in terms of increased screening coverage, reduction in inappropriateness and the total number of requested tests. | ||
کلیدواژهها | ||
Cancer؛ Chronic disease؛ Software؛ Quality improvement | ||
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