title: An experience of qualified preventive screening: shiraz smart screening software.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Computerized preventive screening software is a cost effective intervention tool to address non-communicable chronic diseases. Shiraz Smart Screening Software (SSSS) was developed as an innovative tool for qualified screening. It allows simultaneous smart screening of several high-burden chronic diseases and supports reminder notification functionality. The extent in which SSSS affects screening quality is also described.
  
  
  METHODS
  Following software development, preventive screening and annual health examinations of 261 school staff (Medical School of Shiraz, Iran) was carried out in a software-assisted manner. To evaluate the quality of the software-assisted screening, we used quasi-experimental study design and determined coverage, irregular attendance and inappropriateness proportions in relation with the manual and software-assisted screening as well as the corresponding number of requested tests.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In manual screening method, 27% of employees were covered (with 94% irregular attendance) while by software-assisted screening, the coverage proportion was 79% (attendance status will clear after the specified time). The frequency of inappropriate screening test requests, before the software implementation, was 41.37% for fasting plasma glucose, 41.37% for lipid profile, 0.84% for occult blood, 0.19% for flexible sigmoidoscopy/colonoscopy, 35.29% for Pap smear, 19.20% for mammography and 11.2% for prostate specific antigen. All of the above were corrected by the software application. In total, 366 manual screening and 334 software-assisted screening tests were requested.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  SSSS is an innovative tool to improve the quality of preventive screening plans in terms of increased screening coverage, reduction in inappropriateness and the total number of requested tests.
authors: Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors: Parisa
authors: P
authors: Islami Parkoohi
authors: Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors: Hashem
authors: H
authors: Zare
authors: Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors: Gholamreza
authors: G
authors: Abdollahifard
keywords: Cancer; Chronic disease; Quality improvement; Software
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