Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 4 , Pages 249-256 , July 2008

Preventive Health Care Among Older Women in an Academic Primary Care Practice

Presented in part at the National Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine, Los Angeles, California, April 28, 2006.

Received 5 July 2007 ,Accepted 18 December 2007.

References 

  1. Amin SH, Kuhle CL, Fitzpatrick LA. Comprehensive evaluation of the older woman. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2003;78:1157–1185
  2. Bynum JP, Braunstein JB, Sharkey P, Haddad K, Wu AW. The influence of health status, age, and race on screening mammography in elderly women. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2005;165:2083–2088
  3. Casarett DJ, Quill TE. “I'm not ready for hospice”: strategies for timely and effective hospice discussions. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2007;146:443–449
  4. Charlson ME, Pompei P, Ales KL, MacKenzie CR. A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation. Journal of Chronic Disease. 1987;40:373–383
  5. Chou WC, Tinetti ME, King MB, Irwin K, Fortinsky RH. Perceptions of physicians on the barriers and facilitators to integrating fall risk evaluation and management into practice. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2005;21:117–122
  6. Christmas C, Andersen RA. Exercise and older patients: Guidelines for the clinician. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2000;48:318–324
  7. Dexter PR, Perkins S, Overhage JM, Maharry K, Kohler RB, McDonald CJ. A computerized reminder system to increase the use of preventive care for hospitalized patients. New England Journal of Medicine. 2001;345:965–970
  8. Dubey V, Mathew R, Iglar K, Moineddin R, Glazier R. Improving preventive service delivery at adult complete health check-ups: The Preventive health Evidence-based Recommendation Form (PERFORM) cluster randomized controlled trial. BMC Family Practice. 2006;7:44
  9. Flanders WD, Rhodes PH. Large sample confidence intervals for regression standardized risks, risk ratios, and risk differences. Journal of Chronic Disease. 1987;40:697–704
  10. Fletcher SW, Elmore JG. Clinical practice (Mammographic screening for breast cancer). New England Journal of Medicine. 2003;48:1672–1680
  11. Fries JF, Green LW, Levine S. Health promotion and the compression of morbidity. Lancet. 1989;1:481–483
  12. Janes GR, Blackman DK, Bolen JC, Kamimoto LA, Rhodes L, Caplan LS, et al. Surveillance for use of preventive health-care services by older adults, 1995–1997. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 1999;48:51–88
  13. Joffe MM, Byrne C, Colditz GA. Postmenopausal hormone use, screening, and breast cancer: characterization and control of a bias. Epidemiology. 2001;12:429–438
  14. Kerse NM, Flicker L, Jolley D, Arroll B, Young D. Improving the health behaviours of elderly people: Randomised controlled trial of a general practice education programme. British Medical Journal. 1999;319:683–687
  15. Lee SJ, Lindquist K, Segal MR, Covinsky KE. Development and validation of a prognostic index for 4-year mortality in older adults. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2006;295:801–808
  16. Lyness JM, Heo M, Datto CJ, TenHave TR, Katz IR, Drayer R, et al. Outcomes of minor and subsyndromal depression among elderly patients in primary care settings. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2006;144:496–504
  17. Miller KE, Zylstra RG, Standridge JB. The geriatric patient: A systematic approach to maintaining health. American Family Physician. 2000;61:1089–1104
  18. Moore AA, Siu AL. Screening for common problems in ambulatory elderly: Clinical confirmation of a screening instrument. American Journal of Medicine. 1996;100:438–443
  19. Moore AA, Siu A, Partridge JM, Hayes RD, Adams J. A randomized trial of office-based screening for common problems in older persons. American Journal of Medicine. 1997;102:371–378
  20. Neuner JM, Binkley N, Sparapani RA, Laud PW, Nattinger AB. Bone density testing in older women and its association with patient age. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2006;54:485–489
  21. Nicastri C, Fields S. Health promotion/disease prevention in older adults—An evidence-based update. Clinical Geriatrics. 2004;12:17–25
  22. NIH Consensus Conference. NIH Consensus Development Panel on Depression in Late Life: Diagnosis and treatment of depression in late life. Journal of the American Medical Association. 1992;268:1018–1024
  23. Pham HH, Schray D, Hargraves JL, Bach PB. Delivery of preventive services to older adults by primary care physicians. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2005;294:473–481
  24. Prevention of pneumococcal disease. Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Recommendations and Report. 1997;46:1–24
  25. Reuben DB, Roth C, Kamberg C, Wenger NS. Restructuring primary care practices to manage geriatric syndromes: The ACOVE-2 intervention. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2003;1:1787–1793
  26. Robinson BE, Barry PP, Renick N, Bergin MR, Stratos GA. Physician confidence and interest in learning more about common geriatric topics: A needs assessment. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2001;49:963–967
  27. Rubenstein LZ, Alessi CA, Josephson KR, Hoyl MT, Harker JO, Pietruszka P. A randomized trial of screening, case finding, and referral system for older veterans in primary care. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2007;55:166–174
  28. Sands DZ, Rind DM, Safran C. Dissemination of electronic patient records using primary care referrals as a vector for change. Medical Informatics. 2001;10:685–689
  29. Saslow D, Runowicz CD, Solomon D, Moscicki AB, Smith RA, Eyre HJ, et al. American Cancer Society guideline for the early detection of cervical neoplasia and cancer. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. 2002;52:342–362
  30. Schonberg MA, Marcantonio ER, Wee CC. Receipt of exercise counseling by older women. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2006;54:619–626
  31. Schonberg MA, McCarthy EP, Davis RB, Phillips RS, Hamel MB. Breast cancer screening in women aged 80 and older: results from a national survey. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2004;52:1688–1695
  32. Schonberg MA, Ramanan RA, McCarthy EP, Marcantonio ER. Decision-making and counseling around mammography screening for women aged 80 or older. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2006;21:979–985
  33. Screening for cervical cancer. Recommendations and rationale. American Family Physician. 2003;67:1759–1766
  34. Screening for osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. Recommendations and rationale. American Family Physician. 2002;66:1430–1432
  35. Simon GE, VonKorff M. Recognition, management, and outcomes of depression in primary care. Archives of Family Medicine. 1995;4:99–105
  36. Sox CH, Dietrich AJ, Tosteson TD, Winchell CW, Labaree CE. Periodic health examinations and the provision of cancer prevention services. Archives of Family Medicine. 1997;6:223–230
  37. Thompson WW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, Brammer L, Cox N, Anderson LJ, et al. Mortality associated with influenza and respiratory syncytial virus in the United States. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2003;289:179–186
  38. Tishler J, McCarthy EP, Rind DM, Hamel MB. Breast cancer screening for older women in a primary care practice. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2000;48:961–966
  39. Walter LC, Covinsky KE. Cancer screening in elderly patients: A framework for individualized decision making. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2001;285:2750–2756
  40. Walter LC, Lindquist K, Covinsky KE. Relationship between health status and use of screening mammography and Papanicolaou smears among women older than 70 years of age. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2004;140:681–688
  41. Wenger NS, Solomon DH, Roth CP, MacLean CH, Saliba D, Kamberg CJ. The quality of medical care provided to vulnerable community-dwelling older patients. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2003;139:740–747
  42. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Screening for depression: Recommendations and rationale. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2002;136:760–764

 Funded by an Older Americans Independence Center Grant Pilot Project, a Harvard/Hartford Foundation Junior Faculty Development Grant, a Hartford Geriatrics Health Outcomes Research Scholars Award, and a National Research Service Award from the National Cancer Institute (1 F32 CA110424-01).

PII: S1049-3867(07)00188-0

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.12.004

Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 4 , Pages 249-256 , July 2008

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution