Saturday Pap Smear Clinic: addressing barriers to cervical cancer screening
Background The incidence of cervical cancer has decreased by 70% since the 1950s. Preventative measures include vaccination against HPV strains and Papanicolaou tests. Early identification of cervical cancer through routine screening can significantly improve patient outcomes.Materials and methods A...
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| author | Jordan Anderson Brittany Strelow Mollie Francis Gabrielle Gertner Rachel Olson Kholood Abuhadid Deqa Abdi Nicole Fellows Stephanie Fink Joy Stevens Sonya Peters Anne Stolp Johanna Tweedy Danielle O'Laughlin |
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| description | Background The incidence of cervical cancer has decreased by 70% since the 1950s. Preventative measures include vaccination against HPV strains and Papanicolaou tests. Early identification of cervical cancer through routine screening can significantly improve patient outcomes.Materials and methods At our academic institution, Community Internal Medicine (CIM) Clinic, 63% of female patients aged 21–65 were compliant with cervical cancer screening. The opening of the ‘Saturday Pap Smear Clinic’ sought to address barriers by offering non-traditional appointment times on Saturday mornings with an all female staff. Our aim was to increase the cervical cancer screening rate by 1% within 12 weeks. Our team compared CIM (intervention) and family medicine (FM) (control) compliance rates from September 2021 to January 2022. Messages were sent to the patient indicating non-compliance and offering options to complete screening.Results At the start of this study, 5239 CIM patients were cervical cancer screening non-compliant. Postintervention, cervical screening rates among non-compliant women within CIM improved by 1.2%. The intervention cohort, CIM patients, had a significant improvement in compliance compared with the control group, FM patients. White women between the ages of 50 and 65 comprised the majority of patients who used the ‘Saturday Pap Smear Clinic’.Conclusions The availability of Saturday appointments for cervical cancer screening completion can enhance cervical cancer screening compliance among eligible women. Eliminating barriers for women can improve health outcomes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a50055ee7fb74eb085f7ec47751b5ead2023-10-03T09:20:07ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Open Quality2399-66412023-08-0112310.1136/bmjoq-2023-002252Saturday Pap Smear Clinic: addressing barriers to cervical cancer screeningJordan Anderson0Brittany Strelow1Mollie Francis2Gabrielle Gertner3Rachel Olson4Kholood Abuhadid5Deqa Abdi6Nicole Fellows7Stephanie Fink8Joy Stevens9Sonya Peters10Anne Stolp11Johanna Tweedy12Danielle O'Laughlin13Physician Assistant Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USACommunity Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USAPhysician Assistant Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USAPhysician Assistant Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USAPhysician Assistant Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USAPhysician Assistant Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USAPhysician Assistant Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USACommunity Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USACommunity Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USACommunity Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USACommunity Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USACommunity Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USACommunity Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USACommunity Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USABackground The incidence of cervical cancer has decreased by 70% since the 1950s. Preventative measures include vaccination against HPV strains and Papanicolaou tests. Early identification of cervical cancer through routine screening can significantly improve patient outcomes.Materials and methods At our academic institution, Community Internal Medicine (CIM) Clinic, 63% of female patients aged 21–65 were compliant with cervical cancer screening. The opening of the ‘Saturday Pap Smear Clinic’ sought to address barriers by offering non-traditional appointment times on Saturday mornings with an all female staff. Our aim was to increase the cervical cancer screening rate by 1% within 12 weeks. Our team compared CIM (intervention) and family medicine (FM) (control) compliance rates from September 2021 to January 2022. Messages were sent to the patient indicating non-compliance and offering options to complete screening.Results At the start of this study, 5239 CIM patients were cervical cancer screening non-compliant. Postintervention, cervical screening rates among non-compliant women within CIM improved by 1.2%. The intervention cohort, CIM patients, had a significant improvement in compliance compared with the control group, FM patients. White women between the ages of 50 and 65 comprised the majority of patients who used the ‘Saturday Pap Smear Clinic’.Conclusions The availability of Saturday appointments for cervical cancer screening completion can enhance cervical cancer screening compliance among eligible women. Eliminating barriers for women can improve health outcomes.https://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/12/3/e002252.full |
| spellingShingle | Jordan Anderson Brittany Strelow Mollie Francis Gabrielle Gertner Rachel Olson Kholood Abuhadid Deqa Abdi Nicole Fellows Stephanie Fink Joy Stevens Sonya Peters Anne Stolp Johanna Tweedy Danielle O'Laughlin Saturday Pap Smear Clinic: addressing barriers to cervical cancer screening BMJ Open Quality |
| title | Saturday Pap Smear Clinic: addressing barriers to cervical cancer screening |
| title_full | Saturday Pap Smear Clinic: addressing barriers to cervical cancer screening |
| title_fullStr | Saturday Pap Smear Clinic: addressing barriers to cervical cancer screening |
| title_full_unstemmed | Saturday Pap Smear Clinic: addressing barriers to cervical cancer screening |
| title_short | Saturday Pap Smear Clinic: addressing barriers to cervical cancer screening |
| title_sort | saturday pap smear clinic addressing barriers to cervical cancer screening |
| url | https://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/12/3/e002252.full |
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