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Lessons learned from the CDC's Colorectal Cancer Screening Demonstration Program
Author(s) -
Seeff Laura C.,
Rohan Elizabeth A.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.28165
Subject(s) - medicine , colorectal cancer , population , colorectal cancer screening , cancer , family medicine , cancer prevention , health care , medical physics , environmental health , colonoscopy , economics , economic growth
This report briefly summarizes 13 articles in this dedicated supplement to Cancer documenting the full implementation and evaluation of CDC's Colorectal Cancer Screening Demonstration Program (CRCSDP). The supplement includes 3 articles that describe clinical and quality outcomes; 2 articles that describe programmatic and clinical costs; 3 that were based on a multiple case study, using qualitative methods to describe the overall implementation experience of this initiative; and 4 articles written by and about individual program sites. The comprehensive, multi‐methods evaluation conducted alongside the program produced many important lessons regarding the design, start‐up, and implementation of colorectal cancer screening in this high‐need population, and paved the way for the CDC to establish a larger, population‐based colorectal cancer control initiative, broadly aligned with expectations of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act through its population‐based emphasis on using a health systems approach to increase colorectal cancer screening. Cancer 2013;119(15 suppl):2817–9. © 2013 American Cancer Society .