Colorectal Cancer Screening Improvement Toolkit
The NCCRT Steps Guide provides a step-by-step format for implementing evidence-based, expert-endorsed strategies to improve colorectal cancer screening rates in primary care practices. The ScreeND program, a colorectal cancer screening improvement program from Quality Health Associates of ND, has developed tools that have been utilized in rural and tribal communities in ND. Those tools are shared in this toolkit.
Toolkit
To begin your work, download the NCCRT Steps Guide by selecting one of the buttons below:
Download the NCCRT Steps Guide with Appendices
Download the NCCRT Steps Guide without Appendices
Step 1 | Make a Plan
Step 2 | Identify a Team
Step 3 | Screen Patients
Step 4 | Coordinate Care
Step 1 | Make a Plan
Step 1 | Make a Plan
Steps Guide: Pages 16-32
Assess Readiness of Your Practice to Implement Changes (p. 19)
 Clinic Readiness Assessment |
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Step 2 | Identify a Team
Step 2 | Identify a Team
Steps Guide: Pages 33-41
Develop a Screening Protocol (p. 37)
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Workflow for Follow-On Colonoscopy
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Step 3 | Screen Patients
Step 3 | Screen Patients
Steps Guide: Pages 42-53
Track Return Rates and Follow-up (p. 51)
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Data Collection Tool (Excel) |
Step 4 | Coordinate Care
Step 4 | Coordinate Care
Steps Guide: Pages 54-56
Coordinate Follow Up
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Additional Provider and Patient Resources
Links:
https://www.ndcancercoalition.org/
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/colon-rectal-cancer/about.html
https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/colorectal/index.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/colorectal/sfl/index.htm
https://fightcolorectalcancer.org/
https://www.exactsciences.com/exactacademy