A survey of compliance: Medicaid's mandated blood lead screenings for children age 12–18 months in Nebraska

BACKGROUND: To determine the frequency of Medicaid mandated blood lead level (BLL) screening compliance rates by clinical site. METHODS: Retrospective chart review for evidence of BLLs. Data analyses were conducted using frequencies, percentages & chi-square. RESULTS: The overall incidence of do...

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Autores principales: Wilken, Marlene, Currier, Sarah, Abel-Zieg, Carla, Brady, Linda A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC375535/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15053833
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-4-4
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author Wilken, Marlene
Currier, Sarah
Abel-Zieg, Carla
Brady, Linda A
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description BACKGROUND: To determine the frequency of Medicaid mandated blood lead level (BLL) screening compliance rates by clinical site. METHODS: Retrospective chart review for evidence of BLLs. Data analyses were conducted using frequencies, percentages & chi-square. RESULTS: The overall incidence of documented BLLs was 78.9% with one clinic demonstrating 100% BLLs while the others had 72%. Screening rates differed significantly by clinical site (X(2 )= 18.460, df = 3, p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Although universal blood lead screening is mandated, there were missed opportunities to obtain BLLs in 21.1% of the records reviewed. Only one clinic had 100% documentation of BLLs when children on Medicaid were seen between the ages of 12–18 months.
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spelling pubmed-3755352004-03-27 A survey of compliance: Medicaid's mandated blood lead screenings for children age 12–18 months in Nebraska Wilken, Marlene Currier, Sarah Abel-Zieg, Carla Brady, Linda A BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: To determine the frequency of Medicaid mandated blood lead level (BLL) screening compliance rates by clinical site. METHODS: Retrospective chart review for evidence of BLLs. Data analyses were conducted using frequencies, percentages & chi-square. RESULTS: The overall incidence of documented BLLs was 78.9% with one clinic demonstrating 100% BLLs while the others had 72%. Screening rates differed significantly by clinical site (X(2 )= 18.460, df = 3, p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Although universal blood lead screening is mandated, there were missed opportunities to obtain BLLs in 21.1% of the records reviewed. Only one clinic had 100% documentation of BLLs when children on Medicaid were seen between the ages of 12–18 months. BioMed Central 2004-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC375535/ /pubmed/15053833 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-4-4 Text en Copyright © 2004 Wilken et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL.
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Currier, Sarah
Abel-Zieg, Carla
Brady, Linda A
A survey of compliance: Medicaid's mandated blood lead screenings for children age 12–18 months in Nebraska
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15053833
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-4-4
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