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Low Reach of Four Different Alcohol Screening Approaches in the Absence of Population-Based Screening: Results From One Large Integrated Health Care System

Journal article reporting low reach of four different alcohol screening approaches in the absence of population-based screening, based on results from one large integrated health care system. Publisher: Aurora Health Care, Inc.; published 2015-04-30.

"Orders undergo 6-frame translation to retrieve protein sequences. Protein and nucleotide sequences are compared to publicly available protein and nucleotide sequences labeled with the taxonomic ID the sequence originates from, and best matches within the order are identified. Any best matches that correspond to regulated pathogens are flagged if they meet a minimum length requirement for screening (200 bases under 2010 US Government guidance but this threshold can differ from company to company
Illustrative image: "Orders undergo 6-frame translation to retrieve protein sequences. Protein and nucleotide sequences are compared to publicly available protein and nucleotide sequences labeled with the taxonomic ID the sequence originates from, and best matches within the order are identified. Any best matches that correspond to regulated pathogens are flagged if they meet a minimum length requirement for screening (200 bases under 2010 US Government guidance but this threshold can differ from company to company — Authors of the study: Stefan A. Hoffmann James Diggans Douglas Densmore Junbiao Dai Tom Knight Emily Leproust Jef D. Boeke Nicole Wheeler Yizhi Cai/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Categories: public-health

Generated scores

Scores are based on the cited reporting and use a 1–10 scale. Read the methodology.

Confidence
5/10
Geographic reach
1/10
Global importance
3/10
Impact magnitude
3/10
Positivity
3/10
Urgency
1/10

Why it matters

It indicates that alcohol screening methods had low reach within the studied health care system.

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