Background: There is good evidence that cancer-specific patient outreach improves rates of
cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer screening. However, it is unclear how primary care …

Purpose: Low-cost interventions to improve cancer screening among primary care patients
are needed. The comparative effectiveness of personalized letters, automated telephone …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Rates of breast cancer (BC) and colorectal cancer (CRC)
screening are particularly low among poor and minority patients. Multifaceted interventions …

Background Most randomized controlled trials of interventions designed to promote cancer
screening, particularly those targeting poor and minority patients, enroll selected patients …

Objectives To evaluate a population outreach program to promote screening for colorectal
cancer (CRC) among average-risk insured men and women. Study design In 2008, 58,440 …

Background: Few interventions to increase colorectal cancer screening have used a stage of
change model to promote screening adoption. None have used computer-assisted tailored …

Objectives. We compared the effectiveness of a telephone outreach approach versus a
direct mail approach in improving rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening in a …

OBJECTIVE: To perform a meta-analysis on existing randomized controlled trials to
investigate the efficacy of patient letter reminders on increasing cervical cancer screening …

Background Routine screening reduces colorectal cancer mortality, but screening rates fall
below national targets and are particularly low in underserved populations. Objective To …

Importance Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is underused in the US. Tailored message
interventions have shown benefit for increasing screening uptake of mammography and …