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4/9/2019 - Medical Grand Rounds: Eliminating Preventable Death from Colorectal Cancer by Addressing Modifiable Failures of Screening

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EVALUATION

CERTIFICATE

INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Describe steps in the screening process that may fail and contribute to death. 
  • Identify the relative contribution of screening screening failures on the risk of dying from colorectal cancer.
  • Identify evidence-based population health strategy that can be used to address failures of screening.
  • State at least one area of research need for improving the effectiveness of screening for colorectal cancer in populations


Suggested Additional Reading:

Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS) App to search and browse USPSTF recommendations – https://epss.ahrq.gov/PDA/index.jsp
The Community Guide – www.thecommunityguide.org/topic/cancer
National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable – http://nccrt.org/resource-center/
Research-Tested Intervention Programs (RTIPs, National Cancer Institute) – https://rtips.cancer.gov/rtips/index.do
American Cancer Society – www.cancer.org/
UpToDate – www.uptodate.com/home


Doubeni CA, Fedewa SA, Levin TR, Jensen CD, Saia C, Zebrowski AM, Quinn VP, Rendle KA, Zauber AG, Becerra-Culqui TA, Mehta SJ, Fletcher RH, Schottinger JE, Corley DA: Modifiable Failures in the Colorectal Cancer Screening Process and Their Association with Risk of Death Gastroenterology 156(1): 63-74, Jan 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2018.09.040

Authors:
Chyke Doubeni, MD, FRCS, MPH — Harrison McCrea Dickson, MD and Clifford C. Baker, MD Presidential Professor Department of Family Medicine and Community Health Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Doubeni authors topics on UpToDate, an online resource for point-of-care clinical decision support.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

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