title: A postal screening questionnaire in preventive geriatric care.
abstract: A postal questionnaire was introduced as a screening procedure for a comprehensive geriatric assessment programme in general practice. It had a response rate of 81 per cent, a sensitivity of 0.95, a specificity of 0.68, and a predictive value of 0.91. The use of this screening procedure could reduce the workload of an assessment programme by one fifth.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D005853:Geriatrics; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D011177:Postal Service; D012606:Scotland; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires