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Recipe Name:

Patients who have never been screened or are overdue to screen for more than one screening program

Rationale:

This recipe supports identification of women who are non-screeners across multiple screening programs.

Primary care providers are well positioned to provide women who may have complex reasons for non-participation in cancer screening with the support they need to engage with cancer screening. 

A high proportion (69%) of women who have screened participate in all the cancer screening programs they are eligible for. [1]

This may mean that if the barriers to screening for non-screeners can be broken down in at least one program, it might improve participation in other screening programs as well, leading to more cancers detected through screening and reduced risk of death.

Practices may wish to consider contacting patients who are overdue for more than one screening program by phone and inviting them to make an appointment to speak to a clinician about screening.

1 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2018. Analysis of cancer outcomes and screening behaviour for national cancer screening programs in Australia. Cancer series no. 111. Cat. no. CAN 115. Canberra: AIHW

Target:

Female patients aged 50 and older never screened or overdue for CST, mammogram and FOBT screening

Recipe Limitations:

This report excludes patients with a number of conditions 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.

Your practice may have patients that you consider clinically ineligible for screening that are not captured by these diagnosis codes.  These patients should be manually opted out of screening.

CAT Starting Point:

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


CAT4 starting point



RECIPE Steps Filters:

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This will show a list of all patient meeting the selected categories on all three reports:



Excerpt Include
CR:Bowel Cancer Screening Participation RateCR:
Bowel Cancer Screening Participation Rate
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Excerpt Include
CR:Patients eligible for the NBCSP aged 50 years and 4 months or olderCR:
Patients eligible for the NBCSP aged 50 years and 4 months or older
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