Clinical Preventive Services
Introduction
Clinical preventive services are services that are both offered to detect and hinder diseases that range from minor flu to deadly diseases like cancer. The conditions get detected through early regular screening and immunization. Once the disorders get screened at an early stage, they are easily treatable, therefore minimizing the chances of falling sick, premature deaths reduced disability incidences, and lowered the costs for medical care.
The clinical preventive services do present individuals with excellent chances to increase their life spans and offer a better living to people during such periods. The practice of these services improves the quality of care provided and assists individuals in escaping less important tests, according to an article done by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2014. These services have proved useful in curing diseases like cardiovascular diseases, chronic illnesses such as diabetes, infectious diseases, and mental illnesses.
Ways to promote clinical preventive services
According to statistics done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the United States, 2015, only a small percentage of individuals of age ranging from 50 to 65 years are on the required clinical preventive services, and a very minute number are up to date. Even though these services are easily accessible at a low cost, the right amount of the patient still suffers illiteracy on health issues and lacks clarity on the services they need to acquire for a healthy living.
Nevertheless, there is a need to promote literacy for patients who need to understand the right action to take. The health information should be recognized by the patients upon presentation whenever requested to make choices that impact their health care. One of the critical ways, therefore, of improving the clinical preventive services is by collaborative mode of making decisions.
Collaborative decision making is a means of sharing decisions between the patients and the health care providers to help the patients to comprehend their options. Here, the provider has options on screening and treatment basis while the patient has their options on values and selections basis. The collaborative decision-making process enhances boldness and comfortability in the process of making decisions related to screening and treatment.
The collaborative model of decision making not only helps to improve the options of health care but also minimize the costs of health care services. The shared decision-making process has applications past clinical preventive services. It’s an application that helps to determine the personal management procedures for long term situations. Besides, to stay healthy, patients need various tools to help them comprehend health-based information and be able to understand and meet current health care demands.
Barriers to clinical practices
The provision of clinical preventive services has encountered several challenges. The clinicians have identified some barriers to the implemented guidelines, such as lack of consistency of the health provision tools, reduced internalization, time-constraints, legality issues, and issues concerning costs of accessing medical care. Among the barriers, the poor relationship between the health care providers and the patient outstands. Other restrictions, according to Ayres, 2007, entail lack of provision for the materials for patients, lack of provider awareness, and lack of consistency in tools usage.
Shared decision making is one of the main methods of reducing clinical preventive services barriers. That is because it mainly helps to improve the options of health care services and reduce the cost of health care services.
Some of the recommendations for delivery of clinical preventive services include; indulgence in better communications between the health care providers and the patients to reduce barrier perceptions and raise awareness for preventive care. Besides, health care providers should reduce competition and enhance unison in communication.
Conclusion
Finally, the choice, designation, and evaluation of the effect of barriers to the clinical practices are of importance for improvement and continuous assessment. Moreover, planned interventions are critical to the health providers and the society at large to beat these challenges and improve the capability to walk preventive care practices.
references
Cynthia G Ayres et al. (2007) Perceived Barrier to and Facilitators of the Implementation of Priority Clinical Preventive Services Guidelines
Haya R Rubin () Overcoming Barriers to Preventive Care. Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nih.gov/pmc/articles
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, ODPHP (2014) Leading Health Indicators. Clinical Preventive Services. Retrieved from: https://www.healthypeople.gov/leading-health-indicators
Thomas A Farley, Mehul A Dalal, Farzad Mostashari, Thomas R Frieden (2010) Deaths preventable in the US by improvement in the use of clinical preventive services