Community Health Centers' Performance in Cancer Screening and Prevention.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Little is known about what clinic-level factors differentiate community health centers that achieve high performance on cancer-preventive care metrics. This study aims to describe the longitudinal trends in the delivery of 3 cancer-preventive care metrics (cervical and colorectal cancer screenings and tobacco-cessation intervention) and define and compare community health centers with high cancer-preventive care performance with those with low cancer-preventive care performance.

Methods

This observational study used 2012-2019 community health center data (N=933) from the Uniform Data System. High/low performance was based on Healthy People 2020 targets and sample distribution. For each cancer-preventive care metric, the percentage of community health centers tha

SUBMITTER: Huguet N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8748316 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature