Timely follow-up of positive fecal occult blood tests strategies associated with improvement.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:In light of previous research indicating that many patients fail to receive timely diagnostic follow-up of positive colorectal cancer (CRC) screening tests, the Veterans Health Administration (VA) initiated a national CRC diagnosis quality-improvement (QI) effort. PURPOSE:This article documents the percent of patients receiving follow-up within 60 days of a positive CRC screening fecal occult blood test (FOBT) and identifies improvement strategies that predict timely follow-up. METHODS:In 2007, VA facilities completed a survey in which they indicated the degree to which they had implemented a series of improvement strategies and described barriers to improvement. Three types of strategies were assessed: developing QI infrastructure, improving care delivery processes, and building gastroenterology capacity. Survey data were merged with a measure of 60-day positive-FOBT follow-up. Facility-level predictors of timely follow-up were identified and relationships among categories of improvement strategies were assessed. Data were analyzed in 2008. RESULTS:The median facility-reported 60-day follow-up rate for positive screening FOBTs was 24.5%. Several strategies were associated with timeliness of follow-up. The relationship between the implementation of QI infrastructure strategies and timely follow-up was mediated by the implementation of process-change strategies. Although constraints on gastroenterology capacity were often sited as a key barrier, implementation of strategies to address this issue was unassociated with timely follow-up. CONCLUSIONS:Developing QI infrastructure appears to be an effective strategy for improving FOBT follow-up when this work is followed by process improvements. Increasing gastroenterology capacity may be more difficult than improving processes of care.

journal_name

Am J Prev Med

authors

Powell AA,Gravely AA,Ordin DL,Schlosser JE,Partin MR

doi

10.1016/j.amepre.2009.05.013

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2009-08-01 00:00:00

pages

87-93

issue

2

eissn

0749-3797

issn

1873-2607

pii

S0749-3797(09)00294-3

journal_volume

37

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