Stakeholder engagement to initiate lung cancer screening in an urban safety-net health system

Publication date: Available online 31 August 2019Source: HealthcareAuthor(s): Simon J.Craddock Lee, Heidi A. Hamann, Travis Browning, Noel O. Santini, Suhny Abbara, David S. Balis, Hsienchang Chiu, Brett A. Moran, Molly McGuire, David E. GerberAbstract•Health systems, especially those caring for medically underserved populations, should consider a multi-level approach to patient and stakeholder engagement to advance adoption of population screening as guideline-based care.•Iterative engagement should inform design and activation of an electronic order set to (1) capture socio-demographic data to establish screening eligibility, and (2) provide CMS-mandated documentation of patient counseling, while minimizing order burden for referring clinicians.•Patients who most stand to benefit from guideline-based lung cancer screening may also be those least likely to complete the multi-step processes of screening.
Source: Healthcare - Category: Middle East Health Source Type: research