• J Nurs Adm · May 2014

    The Affordable Health Care Act annual wellness visits: the effectiveness of a nurse-run clinic in promoting adherence to mammogram and colonoscopy recommendations.

    • Theresa M Tetuan, Ruth Ohm, Matthew H Herynk, Mendy Ebberts, Toni Wendling, and Michael C Mosier.
    • Author Affiliations: Clinic Nurse Manager (Dr Tetuan), Annual Wellness Visit Nurse (Ms Ebberts), Staffing Manager (Ms Wendling), Stormont-Vail HealthCare, Cotton-O'Neil Clinic, Topeka; Associate Professor (Dr Ohm), School of Nursing, Baker University, Topeka; Manager, Oncology Research and Program Development (Dr Herynk), Stormont-Vail HealthCare, Cotton-O'Neil Cancer Center, Topeka; Professor, Statistics (Dr Mosier), Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas.
    • J Nurs Adm. 2014 May 1; 44 (5): 270-5.

    ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the nurse-run annual wellness visit (AWV) in improving adherence to cancer screening recommendations for colonoscopies and/or mammograms.BackgroundThe Affordable Health Care Act provides Medicare beneficiaries access to AWVs. Nurse-run AWVs offer individualized education, reinforce health screening recommendations, and may enhance the patients' intent to complete the screenings.MethodsA nonexperimental comparative study was conducted using data collected from chart audits comparing patients who only attended the AWV, patients who attended the AWV linked with a physician visit, and patients who have not attended an AWV.ResultsPatients who attended the AWV showed greater adherence to mammogram completion regardless of the link to the physician follow-up visit. Differences in adherence to colonoscopy recommendations were not significant, likely because of the low number of colonoscopies reported.ConclusionsNurse-run AWV clinics are associated with adherence to mammograms and show promise of increasing colonoscopy compliance.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…