Collaborating with Battelle Memorial Institute, the AAFP NRN will develop an intervention that can use the practice’s existing EHR, registries, tracking systems, and decision support software to identify patients between ages of 50 and 75 with an average risk of colorectal cancer, assess the practice patients’’ CRC screening status, invite eligible patients to be screened by one of screening methods, and follow up with positively-screened patients to obtain a colonoscopy.
Study sites will implement the intervention and, with their help, we will evaluate the intervention’s ease of use, usefulness, effectiveness, and sustainability. The results of the study will provide critical information on how to increase CRC screening rates in primary care settings.
Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Screening, Increasing Primary Care Practice Rates
Study Description and Methods
Specific Aims and Objectives
This study will evaluate the effect of a system-level intervention on CRC screening rates. The objectives of the study are to:
- Identify potential existing and evaluated system-level interventions that increase CRC screening rates;
- Revise and/or develop and implement an intervention in primary care practices that will be sustainable once the study has concluded; and
- Evaluate the implementation, effectiveness, and sustainability of the intervention.
Timeline
This project began in August 2010 and will extend through June 2013.
Status
This project is currently under development.
Once site selection begins, practices will be recruited internally through the DARTNet Electronic Collaboration.
Once site selection begins, practices will be recruited internally through the DARTNet Electronic Collaboration.
Contact Information
For additional information about this study, please contact:
Elizabeth Horsley, MSJ
Project Manager/Research Associate
AAFP National Research Network
1-800-274-2237, x3173
ehorsley@aafp.org
Patty Fitzgibbons, MD
Principle Investigator for the AAFP NRN
PFitzgibbons@aafp.org
Elizabeth Horsley, MSJ
Project Manager/Research Associate
AAFP National Research Network
1-800-274-2237, x3173
ehorsley@aafp.org
Patty Fitzgibbons, MD
Principle Investigator for the AAFP NRN
PFitzgibbons@aafp.org
Key Findings and Publications
This project is currently under development. Please check back at a later time for research results and key findings.
This project was funded the the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC)
