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. 2022 Jun 29;26(2):21-27.
doi: 10.7812/TPP/21.066. Epub 2022 Jun 15.

Improving Cervical Cancer Screening Rates at an Urban Federally Qualified Health Center Family Medicine Residency Clinic

Ecler Jaqua  1 , Van Nguyen  1 , Kelly Morton  1 , Elysia Chin  1 , Andrew Brougher  1 , Jhanelle Dawes  1
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Improving Cervical Cancer Screening Rates at an Urban Federally Qualified Health Center Family Medicine Residency Clinic

Ecler Jaqua et al. Perm J. .

Abstract

Background Family medicine residency clinics and underserved Federally Qualified Health Center clinics often have lower rates of cervical cancer screening (CCS). Methods A series of resident-run, team-based quality improvement projects were conducted to iteratively improve CCS rates in an urban Federally Qualified Health Center in a high-need and high-demand region. Results The authors were able to improve CCS rates from 52.2% to 66.3% through 6 quality improvement projects. Conclusion Improving the clinical workflows and systems to promote better rates of CCS likely requires a series of changes, however, promoting CCS in the usual clinic workflow, regardless of the reason for visit, demonstrated the greatest gains in CCS in our setting.

Keywords: Cervical cancer; FQHC; family medicine; improving; screening.

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Conflicts of Interest: None declared

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Figure 1:
Cervical cancer screening workflow. AVS = after-visit summary; MA = medical assistant.
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Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) family medicine residency clinic cervical cancer (CCS) screening rates across quality improvement cycles. AVS = after-visit summary; MA = medical asssistant.
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