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. 2023 Apr 25:33:102221.
doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102221. eCollection 2023 Jun.

A scalable approach to determine cervical cancer screening needs among emergency department patients in the United States

David Adler  1 , Adrienne Bonham  2 , Sydney Chamberlin  1 , Kevin Fiscella  1 , Karen Mustian  1 , Chanjun Syd Park  1 , Nancy Wood  1 , Beau Abar  1
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A scalable approach to determine cervical cancer screening needs among emergency department patients in the United States

David Adler et al. Prev Med Rep. .

Abstract

The emergency department patient population is disproportionately under-screened for cancer, making it an optimal environment to promote cancer screening among hard-to-reach populations and those without routine access to primary care. The first step in a cancer screening process is identifying screening eligibility (e.g. age, sex) and need (i.e. due or past due). In an effort to support the scalability of an emergency department (ED)-based cervical cancer screening intervention, we examined the performance of a low-resource approach of determining cervical cancer screening needs among ED patients. A convenience sample of ED patients (N = 2807) was randomized to (a) an in-person interview with human subjects research staff or, (b) a self-administered, tablet computer-based survey for determining cervical cancer eligibility and need. Patients were recruited from a high-volume urban ED in Rochester, NY and a low-volume rural ED in Dansville, NY between December 2020 and December 2022. Results of these approaches were compared for equivalence of method for determining adherence status with screening guidelines and under/over-reporting of screening activity. Nearly identical reported rates of non-adherence with screening were identified across conditions (1.7% absolute difference; Χ21 = 0.96, p = 0.33). Our results demonstrate that a low-resource approach of using a tablet-based self-administered survey to determine cervical cancer screening needs is equivalent to a labor intensive in-person interview approach conducted by trained research staff among ED patients.

Keywords: Cancer screening; Cancer screening eligibility; Cancer screening survey; Cervical cancer prevention; Cervical cancer screening; Emergency department; Emergency medicine.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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