Update in office managementUsing Quality Improvement Techniques to Increase Colon Cancer Screening
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Interventions to Increasing CRC Screening
A wide variety of interventions have been tested with respect to their ability to increase use of CRC screening. (Table) Our main focus has been the use of patient decision aids. Patient decision aids are tools that have been systematically developed to encourage better decision-making processes. They help alert the patient about the relevance of the health issue; allow consideration of options, and their benefits and downsides, and help patients make a decision concordant with his or her
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Jennifer Griffith and Rachael Scheinman for their help in preparing this manuscript.
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Funding: Dr. Pignone and Dr. Lewis are supported by research grants from the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making. Dr. Lewis is supported by a K07 Mentored Career Development Award and Dr. Pignone by a K05 Established Investigator Award (5K07CA104128 and 1K05CA129166, respectively) from the National Cancer Institute.
Conflict of Interest: None.
Authorship: All authors had access to the data and a role in writing this manuscript.