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Recipe Name:

Cervical Cancer Screening Participation Rate

Rationale:

The ‘cervical cancer participation rate’ recipe will support practices who are participating in cervical cancer screening quality improvement to establish and monitor the cervical cancer screening participation rate in their practice.

• Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable cancers
• Almost 80% of cervical cancers occur in women who have never been screened or are not up-to-date with their cervical screening[i]

Establishing and monitoring their bowel cancer screening participation rates allows primary care providers to:

• assess the need within their service for undertaking activities to improve patient participation in cervical cancer screening

monitor the impact of cancer screening quality improvement activities on their cervical cancer screening participation rates

[i] Cancer Institute NSW: About cervical screening, 11/18 update. https://www.cancer.nsw.gov.au/cervical-screening-nsw/about-cervical-screening (cited: Jan 2019)

Target:

The proportion of active female patients aged between 25 and 74 years of age who have had a Pap test in the previous 2 years OR a Cervical Screening Test in the previous 5 years

Numerator: The number of active female patients aged between 25 and 74 years of age who have had a Pap test in the previous 2 years OR a Cervical Screening Test in the previous 5 years     

Denominator: The number of active female patients aged between 25 and 74 years of age who are eligible for the National Cervical Screening Program

Recipe Limitations:

This report excludes patients with a number of conditions, including hysterectomy, under the 'ineligible’ category.

Practices should be aware of the diagnosis codes that PEN uses to assign patients to ‘ineligible’. 

Practices should undertake periodic clinical review of patients in the ‘ineligible’ category to assess if any of these patients should return to screening.

CAT Starting Point:

1. CAT Open - CAT4 view (all reports) loaded
2. Population Extract Loaded and Extract Pane “Hidden”
   1. Filter Pane open and under the ‘General’ tab ‘Active Patients’ (3x <2 years) selected