What to know
The capacity building for providers and staff focus area includes resources to increase knowledge and skills, improve cancer screening practices, and monitor performance.
Organizing framework
This page is part of the Breast Cancer Screening Change Package.
Cancer screening services may be improved by implementing change concepts, change ideas, and relevant resources.
- Change concepts are "general notions that are useful for developing more specific strategies for changing a process."1
- Change ideas are "actionable, specific ideas or strategies"1 for changing a process. These change packages include evidence-based and practice-based change ideas.
- Each change idea is linked to resources that can be used or adapted to improve cancer screening.
Note: See a list of acronyms used in this change package.
Select a change concept:
Increase provider and staff knowledge and skills to improve screening.
- Evidence-Based Cancer Control Programs (EBCCP) — Kukui Ahi (Light the Way): Patient Navigation
- Mingioni N, 2020 (Thomas Jefferson University-Sidney Kimmel Medical College) — Breast Cancer Screening [presentation slides]
- GW Cancer Center — Together, Equitable, Accessible, Meaningful (TEAM) Training [CEU course, free, registration required]
- Recio-Boiles A, Karass M, Galeas JN, Sukrithan V, Gutwein AH, Babiker, HM, 2020 — Implementation of a Low-Cost Quality Improvement Intervention Increases Adherence to Cancer Screening Guidelines and Reduces Healthcare Costs at a University Medical Center, see Cancer Screening Questionnaire, page 932 [full text available for purchase]
- UNM Health Science Center — Cancer ECHO Initiative (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) [Contact Project ECHO at email provided on landing page to learn about any continuing education opportunities.]
Prepare the clinical team.
- Center for Care Innovations — Pre-Visit Planning: Using Data and Optimizing Care Team Roles [webinar]
- President's Cancer Panel — Closing Gaps in Cancer Screening: Connecting People, Communities, and Systems to Improve Equity and Access — Recommendation 4.2: Create and deploy effective clinical decision support tools for cancer risk assessment and screening.
Provide individual and system-level feedback on screening measures.
- BMC and AVON Foundation for Women — The Boston Medical Center Patient Navigation Toolkit 1st ed, pages 63–70
- NIHB — Health Systems Improvement Toolkit: A Guide to Cancer Screenings in Indian Country, pages 15 and 19–21
- AICAF, UIHI, and NCUIH — American Indian Cancer Foundation Cancer Plan 2020–2022, pages 15–16
- BMC and AVON Foundation for Women — The Boston Medical Center Patient Navigation Toolkit 1st ed, pages 31–36
Content Source:
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; Division of Cancer Prevention and Control
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tobacco Cessation Change Package. US Department of Health and Human Services; 2019.