Clinical Decision Support (CDS) At Reducing Overuse of Care in Seniors does not yield durable changes in terms of prostate-specific antigen (psa) screening in oolder men, but is the sun Ertesing, according to a Research Letter Published online Feb. 11 in the Annals of internal medicine,

Lucia C. Petito, Ph.D., From the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and Colleagues Examined Whether the Effectiveness of a behavioral intervention Er adults in three area persisted in the 12 months after intervention discontinuation .

The Pragmatic, Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials Was Conducted at 60 Primary Care Practices in Chicago, which enrolled 371 clinicians to receive interaction (cds delivered Trol for 18 months.

The Researchers found that the intervention group, but not the control group, had an increase in the annual rate of psa testing per 100 patients during the postinational year. Per 100 eligible patients, the annual rate of urinalysis or urine culture was lower in the intervention versus the control group at the end of the postinational period; Neither Rate Changed meaningfully during the following year.

At the beginning of the postinational period, the annual rate of diabetes overtreatment per 100 eligible patients Oups at the end of the postinational period.

“These findings sugges that to maintenance benefits, CDS interventions aimed at reduction low-value care should generally be left in place or be provided Author Write.

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