An Overview of the Alberta Screening Prevention Program

An Overview of the Alberta Screening & Prevention Program

Why Screening? ACTT Data üFamily physicians do a good job of screening patients – when patients book screening appointments! üMore than 1/3 of patients with physicians do not present for screening

The “Gap” in Screening

Aren’t these the least ill patients? ? “Studies indicate that most cardiovascular deaths occur in patients who were never diagnosed with vascular disease” National Post, February 24 2013 • • These are tomorrow’s seriously ill patients. “I wish we had caught this earlier. ”

The Origins of ASa. P

The ASa. P Partnerships

The ASa. P Opportunity The ASa. P Program is focused on supporting primary care providers (physicians and nurse practitioners) and team members to offer a screening and prevention bundle to all their patients through enhanced opportunistic and planned outreach methods, targeting patients who do not present for screening care.

Maneuvers Menu for Adults

Practice Points

The Screening “Bundle” • Providers will select 5 or more maneuvers for developing screening processes. For example: Cardiovascular Risk - OR Tobacco Use Status - OP PAP - both Blood Pressure - OP Height & Weight - OP Mammography - both Diabetes Exercise Colorectal - both Lipids Flu Vaccine

Summary • The maneuvers for ASa. P were selected based on supporting evidence and strong clinical importance • Opportunistic screening focuses on adding screening during appointments for other reasons • Outreach screening involves tracking patients who are due and inviting them to make a screening appointment • These methods can be involve the provider, the clinic team and/or the primary care organization

Practice Facilitator Training ACTT Clinical Process Advisor • Designated QI support specialist Electronic Medical Record Knowledge Resources • Screening and prevention Practice Facilitator – Building PCN Quality Improvement (QI) Knowledge and Capacity Quality Improvement Training in Cohort • 2+1+1 = 4 days face-to -face • Cohort Webinars QI Knowledge Resources Community of Learning • Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI): Open School • Other resources • Training Cohort • Other Cohorts • QI community building

ASa. P Questions ?