Evaluation of a National Quality Improvement Collaborative for Improving Cancer Screening.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Cancer screening deficits during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic were found to persist into 2021. Cancer-related deaths over the next decade are projected to increase if these deficits are not addressed.

Objective

To assess whether participation in a nationwide quality improvement (QI) collaborative, Return-to-Screening, was associated with restoration of cancer screening.

Design, setting, and participants

Accredited cancer programs electively enrolled in this QI study. Project-specific targets were established on the basis of differences in mean monthly screening test volumes (MTVs) between representative prepandemic (September 2019 and January 2020) and pandemic (September 2020 and January 2021) periods to restore prepandemic volumes and achieve a

SUBMITTER: Joung RH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9669819 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature