TY - JOUR T1 - A postal screening questionnaire in preventive geriatric care JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 49 LP - 51 VL - 30 IS - 210 AU - J. H. Barber AU - Joan B. Wallis AU - Edith McKeating Y1 - 1980/01/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/30/210/49.abstract N2 - A postal questionnaire was introduced as a screening procedure for a comprehensive geriatric assessment programme in general practice. It had a response rate of 81 per cent, a sensitivity of 0·95, a specificity of 0·68, and a predictive value of 0·91. The use of this screening procedure could reduce the workload of an assessment programme by one fifth. ER -