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  • Public Health Policy
  • Healthcare Quality Improvement

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  • Lead exposure poses significant health risks to children.
  • Current guidelines mandate blood lead level (BLL) screening for children.
  • Ensuring adherence to screening protocols is crucial for early detection and intervention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine the proportion of eligible children who were underscreened for elevated blood-lead levels.
  • To assess the rate of problematic repeat blood lead tests among children.
  • To identify factors contributing to underscreening and inefficient repeat testing.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective, population-based, cross-sectional study design.
  • Analysis of a Medicaid cohort of 12,436 children aged 0-18 years in Minnesota.
  • Evaluation of screening data, including test timing, type, and encounter diagnoses.

Main Results:

  • 35% of eligible children did not receive at least one blood lead test.
  • 50% of repeat blood lead tests were identified as problematic.
  • Repeat tests conducted across different healthcare systems showed a 5.3-fold increased odds of being problematic.

Conclusions:

  • The current mandatory lead testing approach for Minnesota's Medicaid population is inefficient and leads to underscreening.
  • Utilizing multiple healthcare systems increases the likelihood of problematic repeat testing.
  • Future agreements should focus on clear accountability for screenings and consider health information exchanges to improve patient safety.