Quality Improvement Pilot

Facilitation of Cancer Prevention and Screening Guideline Implementation: Pilot Study

The overall goal of this study is to develop and pilot test the use of practice facilitation as an intervention for healthcare providers and staff, with the goal of improving the implementation of cancer prevention and screening guidelines in primary care settings.

Study Overview

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Conditions: Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Quality Improvement Practice Facilitation Intervention

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 60
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Kentucky
    • Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 40536
      • University Of Kentucky

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 99 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Normal Volunteers

Exclusion Criteria:

• None

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: Interventional Arm; Intervention

Behavioral: Quality Improvement Practice Facilitation Intervention; The practice facilitation intervention (implementation strategy package) consists of QI projects designed for primary care providers with external practice facilitation and technical support provided by a QI Coach and Data Coach on our team. The QI projects focus on the implementation of cancer prevention and early detection guidelines in primary care settings, specifically one QI project for each of the following clinical guidelines: colorectal cancer screening, lung cancer screening, and tobacco treatment. The study participants are the healthcare providers and staff, not the patients, since the goal of the practice facilitation intervention (implementation strategy package) is to improve the implementation of existing standard of care.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Colorectal Cancer: Screening Rate (Patient Population)	Percent of patients age 50-75 who completed appropriate screening for colorectal cancer.	6 months
Lung Cancer: Screening Rate (Patient Population)	Percent of eligible patients with shared decision-making visit AND completed baseline LDCT scan.	6 months
Tobacco: Treatment Rate (Patient Population)	Percent of patients identified as tobacco user who received tobacco cessation intervention.	6 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Kentucky
• Collaborators: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Pamela C Hull, PhD, University Of Kentucky

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 29, 2022
• Primary Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 8, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 8, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): June 13, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 17, 2025
• Last Verified: January 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 77178; 3P30CA177558-08S3 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No