PMID: 11903272Mar 21, 2002Paper

Lake Superior Rural Cancer Care Project, Part III: provider practice

Cancer Practice
T E ElliottPatricia B Jensen

Abstract

Effective methods that encourage rural primary-care physicians to adopt state-of-the-art cancer-management practices are needed. The purpose of this study was to evaluate educational and systems strategies to improve rural primary-care physicians' cancer practice behaviors. The Lake Superior Rural Cancer Care Project was a group-randomized, controlled trial conducted with 18 rural communities in the North Central United States over 4 years. Although the unit of analysis was the community, the subjects were 104 primary-care physicians and 2089 rural patients with cancer. The intervention was educational and comprised systems strategies that targeted rural primary-care physicians and their healthcare delivery systems. The outcome measures reported here were physician practice behaviors regarding cancer diagnosis, staging, treatment, clinical trial participation, and post-treatment surveillance. The intervention significantly improved 5 of the 37 cancer practice end points. The overall result of the study did not support the majority of the study hypotheses. Because 16 practice end points were found to be at acceptable performance levels, the possibility of a measurable intervention effect was limited. Earlier, the authors reporte...Continue Reading

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Mar 28, 2008·Journal of the National Cancer Institute·David M MurrayJennifer Lehman
Oct 16, 2012·Disease-a-month : DM·Thomas E Elliott, Joseph A Bianco
Feb 18, 2004·The Journal of Rural Health : Official Journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association·Thomas E ElliottPatricia B Jensen
Sep 25, 2004·Pediatric Blood & Cancer·Julia E Klein-GeltinkLeslie S Mery

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