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. 2020 Mar 4;43(5):1016–1024. doi: 10.2337/dc19-1622

Table 2.

Diabetes screening practices and screening eligibility of patients who visited 1 of the 12 clinics in a safety-net health system from 2010 to 2015

Teaching clinics Nonteaching clinics
Total Clinic 1 Clinic 2 Clinic 3 Clinic 4 Clinic 5 Clinic 6 Clinic 7 Clinic 8 Clinic 9 Clinic 10 Clinic 11 Clinic 12
Unique patients
 N 56,818 2,267 1,761 9,099 6,993 5,374 4,315 6,846 1,823 6,467 7,191 1,943 2,739
 (%) (100) (4.0) (3.1) (16.0) (12.3) (9.5) (7.6) (12.1) (3.2) (11.4) (12.7) (3.4) (4.8)
Ever screened 70.4 72.9 75.0 67.9 50.8 69.9 91.5 81.4 72.3 70.3 71.5 71.3 59.4
Diabetes screening tests completed
 HbA1C 54.6 68.4 73.3 55.5 26.3 59.1 91.1 48.9 66.9 51.0 60.6 45.3 39.7
 FBG 33.2 18.8 12.0 26.6 34.0 33.8 18.8 61.6 16.5 42.9 26.6 40.6 30.0
 OGTT 2.1 0.8 0.3 4.1 0.9 4.9 0.6 0.8 0.8 2.2 1.8 0.8 4.1
USPSTF screening eligible (n = 20,595)
 Yes 36.3 44.9 60.7 38.0 26.0 31.8 26.0 36.0 35.3 36.0 50.3 42.0 19.4
USPSTF eligible and screened (n = 15,190)
 Yes 73.8 78.8 82.0 68.4 49.3 71.7 92.8 83.1 74.1 76.3 75.6 76.6 61.5
USPSTF ineligible but screened (n = 24,802)
 Yes 68.5 68.1 64.1 67.6 51.3 69.1 91.1 80.5 71.3 66.9 67.3 67.5 58.9
ADA screening eligible (n = 39,185)
 Yes 69.0 71.1 87.8 81.1 61.3 65.9 62.7 70.6 65.2 62.7 76.5 73.1 40.8
ADA eligible and screened (n = 28,579)
 Yes 72.9 76.0 77.7 69.0 53.3 71.9 92.2 83.4 74.4 73.6 74.2 74.6 62.3
ADA ineligible but screened (n = 11,413)
 Yes 64.7 65.2 55.4 63.2 46.8 66.2 90.4 76.6 68.5 64.6 62.7 62.3 57.4

Data are percentages unless otherwise indicated.