Telephone Care Management To Improve Cancer Screening among Low-Income Women

Abstract

Telephone support can improve cancer screening rates among women who visit community and migrant health centers. The intervention seems to be well suited to health plans, large medical groups, and other organizations that seek to increase cancer screening rates and to address disparities in care.

Prevalence and implications of multiple cancer screening needs among Hispanic community health center patients

“…Very few studies report on adherence rates across multiple cancer screening targets [19,20], particularly among the whole population of a health care system. Such information would be very important for planning QI efforts and for determining whether more integrated strategies would be useful.…”

Improving Colorectal Cancer Screening in Primary Care Practice: Innovative Strategies and Future Directions

“…1). Although some office-based interventions to increase primary care providers' use of CRC screening tests have been evaluated and shown to be efficacious, [5][6][7][8][9][10][11] there is little evidence to suggest that they have been widely adopted into routine practice. 12 Further, many primary care providers are already overburdened with the delivery of a broad range of medical care to their patients.…”

A Cluster-Randomized Trial of a Primary Care Informatics-Based System for Breast Cancer Screening

“…[7][8][9][10][12][13][14]17,[24][25][26][27] To date, most computerized systems have focused on reminders during office visits, 9,14,28,29 although some have used population-based reminder systems targeted to all eligible women. 7,13,26 While traditional point-of-care reminder systems involve physicians directly in clinical decision making, we are not aware of population-based electronic systems with the screening intervention controlled by a clinician.…”