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I commend Cardozo et al¹ for their efforts to study and improve preventive health care in a medical resident practice. As a graduate of the medical institution where the intervention was conducted, I am pleased to see the efforts to integrate preventive medicine into graduate medical education. As a resident in public health and preventive medicine, I have some additional observations that were not discussed that warrant further analysis.

The intervention was clearly effective at improving the rate of performance and documentation of secondary preventive health services in a high-risk population. As I observe the increased perfomance rates in the categories of service that were studied, I note that the most striking increases following the intervention were in prostate examination and prostate-specific antigen testing. Although recommendations vary among professional groups such as the American Cancer Society² and the American Urological Association,³ the current recommendation from the US Preventive Services Task . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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