Engaging the primary care community to encourage appropriate prostate cancer screening
Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer remains a controversial topic, particularly in the primary care community. Our multidisciplinary prostate screening panel at Duke University Health System, USA created a nuanced PSA screening algorithm, implemented it into the Electronic...
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| author | Malhar P. Patel Ariel Schulman Kevin P. Shah John B. Anderson Thomas J. Polascik |
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| description | Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer remains a controversial topic, particularly in the primary care community. Our multidisciplinary prostate screening panel at Duke University Health System, USA created a nuanced PSA screening algorithm, implemented it into the Electronic Health Record of Duke Primary Care, and conducted outreach meetings with primary care practices to support its rollout. Through this project, we identified areas of concern among primary care clinicians regarding PSA screening that we structured into two major categories: ideological opposition and logistical opposition. We outlined specific concerns in each major category and described how our team responded to those concerns. As communication between primary care clinicians and prostate specialists is vital to the success and safety of PSA screening programs, we hope that describing primary care concerns and our responses to them will help other health systems thoughtfully and efficiently implement appropriate PSA screening programs moving forward. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-986480e87cde44d0b579a7cf151638e02022-12-22T01:22:12ZengSAGE PublishingTherapeutic Advances in Urology1756-28721756-28802018-01-011010.1177/1756287217735799Engaging the primary care community to encourage appropriate prostate cancer screeningMalhar P. PatelAriel SchulmanKevin P. ShahJohn B. AndersonThomas J. PolascikProstate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer remains a controversial topic, particularly in the primary care community. Our multidisciplinary prostate screening panel at Duke University Health System, USA created a nuanced PSA screening algorithm, implemented it into the Electronic Health Record of Duke Primary Care, and conducted outreach meetings with primary care practices to support its rollout. Through this project, we identified areas of concern among primary care clinicians regarding PSA screening that we structured into two major categories: ideological opposition and logistical opposition. We outlined specific concerns in each major category and described how our team responded to those concerns. As communication between primary care clinicians and prostate specialists is vital to the success and safety of PSA screening programs, we hope that describing primary care concerns and our responses to them will help other health systems thoughtfully and efficiently implement appropriate PSA screening programs moving forward.https://doi.org/10.1177/1756287217735799 |
| spellingShingle | Malhar P. Patel Ariel Schulman Kevin P. Shah John B. Anderson Thomas J. Polascik Engaging the primary care community to encourage appropriate prostate cancer screening Therapeutic Advances in Urology |
| title | Engaging the primary care community to encourage appropriate prostate cancer screening |
| title_full | Engaging the primary care community to encourage appropriate prostate cancer screening |
| title_fullStr | Engaging the primary care community to encourage appropriate prostate cancer screening |
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| title_short | Engaging the primary care community to encourage appropriate prostate cancer screening |
| title_sort | engaging the primary care community to encourage appropriate prostate cancer screening |
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