How to Use This Toolkit Four Essentials This section presents the Four Essential elements for improving cancer screening rates. Each Essential addresses the strategies and includes the tools to facilitate successful implementation. The Four Essentials are: Make Recommendations Develop a Screening Policy Be Persistent with Reminders Measure Practice Progress Clinic Self-Assessment In this section, you will be able to evaluate your needs, priorities, and readiness to apply the Four Essentials. Once you’ve reviewed the Four Essentials, use the Clinic Self-Assessment to identify your strengths and determine areas where you feel improvement is needed. Guidance and Tips for Effective Office Training This section offers some tips and recommendations of how you can fit this toolkit training into your busy work schedule. Tools While the specific examples presented in this toolkit relate to colorectal cancer, many of the tools and resources provided are adaptable to screening for other cancers or chronic diseases. Included in the toolkit are the American Cancer Society Screening Guidelines for breast, cervical, colorectal, and prostate cancer (Appendix A).
How to Use This Toolkit Four Essentials This section presents the Four Essential elements for improving cancer screening rates. Each Essential addresses the strategies and includes the tools to facilitate successful implementation. The Four Essentials are: Make Recommendations Develop a Screening Policy Be Persistent with Reminders Measure Practice Progress Clinic Self-Assessment In this section, you will be able to evaluate your needs, priorities, and readiness to apply the Four Essentials. Once you’ve reviewed the Four Essentials, use the Clinic Self-Assessment to identify your strengths and determine areas where you feel improvement is needed. Guidance and Tips for Effective Office Training This section offers some tips and recommendations of how you can fit this toolkit training into your busy work schedule. Tools While the specific examples presented in this toolkit relate to colorectal cancer, many of the tools and resources provided are adaptable to screening for other cancers or chronic diseases. Included in the toolkit are the American Cancer Society Screening Guidelines for breast, cervical, colorectal, and prostate cancer (Appendix A).
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