Research Article
Individual Physician versus Team-Based Medical Encounters: Maximizing the Efficiency of a Medical Relief Service in Rural Honduras
Table 1
Comparison of clinical encounter methods.
| | Variable | Team based
| Traditional
| Team based versus traditional |
| | Compliance with diabetes screen | 311 (99%) | 61 (39%) | | | Blood glucose value checked | 132 (42%) | 9 (5.9%) | | | Diabetes education handout given | 14 (4.5%) | 2 (1.3%) |
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| | Compliance with antihelminthic therapy candidacy screen | 304 (96.8%) | 139 (90.8%) | | | Diagnosis of osteoarthritis | 72 (22.9%) | 27 (17.6%) | | | Home PT handout given | 29 (9.2%) | 12 (7.8%) | | | Prescribed an analgesic | 287 (91.4%) | 123 (80.4%) | | | Prescribed acetaminophen | 263 (83.3%) | 86 (56.2%) | | | Prescribed ibuprophen | 55 (17.5%) | 40 (26.1%) | | | Diagnosis of dyspepsia | 23 (7.3%) | 14 (9.2%) | | | Diagnosis of GERD | 191 (60.8%) | 34 (22.2%) | | | Prescribed an H2/PPI | 152 (48.4) | 44 (28.8%) | | | Prescribed an MVI | 297 (94.6%) | 120 (78.4%) | | | Women of childbearing age prescribed an MVI | 150 (87.2%) | 93 (92.1%) | | | Prescribed topical antifungals | 52 (16.6%) | 15 (9.8%) | |
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*Fisher’s exact test.
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