The quality of preventive health care delivered to adults: results from a cross-sectional study in Southern Italy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is assumed that providing clinical preventive services to patients can identify or detect early important causes of adult mortality. The aim of this study was to quantify access to preventive services in Southern Italy and to assess whether and how the provision of preventive care was influenced by any specific characteristics of patients.

Methods

In a cross-sectional study adults aged 18 years and over attending primary care physician (PCP) offices located in Southern Italy were interviewed from June through December 2007. Quality indicators of preventive health care developed from RAND's Quality Assessment Tools and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) were used. Multivariate analysis was performed to identify and to assess the role of patients'

SUBMITTER: Manuti B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2910674 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature