Improving Primary Care Adolescent Depression Screening and Initial Management: A Quality Improvement Study.

ABSTRACT: Although recommended, adolescent depression screening with appropriate initial management is challenging. This project aimed to improve adolescent depression screening rates during preventive care visits in 12 primary care clinics from 65.4% to 80%, increase the proportion of documented initial management for those with a positive screen from 69.5% to 85%, then sustain improvements for 12 months.

Methods

This quality improvement project involved 12 urban primary care clinics serving >120,000 mostly Medicaid-enrolled patients and targeted adolescents 12-17 years. Interventions included standardized depression screening using tablets with electronic health record (EHR) capture and automated scoring, embedding screening results and initial management actions into the EHR, provider educ

SUBMITTER: Beck KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8970087 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature