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Indicators & Change Ideas

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Explore the quality indicators being tracked by health care organizations in Ontario through Quality Improvement Plans (QIPs) and change ideas to help improve them. Connect with others to share your experiences and ideas of your own.

INDICATORS & CHANGE IDEAS

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Overall access to preventive care

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Specific Indicators

  • Percentage of screen eligible patients up to date with cervical screening
  • Percentage of screen eligible patients up to date with breast screening
  • Percentage of screen eligible patients up to date with colorectal tests

Cancer screening is an important component of preventive care and a focus for many primary care teams. According to statistics gathered by Ontario Health, almost a million fewer colorectal, breast, and cervical cancer screenings were conducted between March and December of 2020 than were carried out through the same time period in 2019.

Key Resources
Engage your regional primary care lead for support with cancer screening and sign up for the Provincial Primary Care and Cancer Network newsletter for regular cancer screening updates. Contact PrimaryCareInquiries@ontariohealth.ca for more information

Change Ideas

Redesign your system, and lever digital health solutions

  • Map your local processes with provincial pathway maps to build best practices for the management of patients

For attached patients, using reports such as MyPractice: PrimaryCare and the Screening Activity Report, and developing EMR reminder systems to recall patients due for cancer screening may be helpful. Consider patient preferences such as language, email, text, and phone. Add health promotion messages in reminders. Integrate with online appointment booking systems

Education and Training

Engage Patients

  • Provide patients with information about cancer screening. Integrate health promotion into reminder systems and scheduled visits
  • For patients without a primary care provider (unattached), prepare materials at points of entry into the system for self-referrals
      • Health811 (call 811 [TTY: 1-866-797-007] or use the live chat at ontario.ca/health811) to access the free ColonCancerCheck fecal immunochemical test (FIT) kit to screen for colon cancer or to find a clinic that does cervical screening
      • Ontario Breast Screening Program Locations(patients can self-refer)

  • Increase cancer screening participation among First Nations, Inuit, Métis and Urban Indigenous populations
      • The Indigenous Cancer Strategy sets to address and improve cancer care for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, and Urban Indigenous people in Ontario.
      • Review and incorporate into your practice the First Nations, Inuit, Métis and Urban Indigenous Cancer Screening Resources
      • Review and incorporate into your practice the Cancer 101 Toolkit for First Nations, Inuit, Métis, and Urban Indigenous people
      • Utilize the Indigenous Navigators in your region, who provide support and advocate for First Nations, Inuit, Métis and Urban Indigenous patients and families by:
        • Facilitating and coordinating access to palliative and supportive cancer care services
        • Addressing cultural and spiritual needs
        • Networking with Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners to make the cancer journey culturally safe

Overall access to preventive care

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Specific Indicators

  • Percentage of screen eligible patients up to date with cervical screening
  • Percentage of screen eligible patients up to date with breast screening
  • Percentage of screen eligible patients up to date with colorectal tests

Cancer screening is an important component of preventive care and a focus for many primary care teams. According to statistics gathered by Ontario Health, almost a million fewer colorectal, breast, and cervical cancer screenings were conducted between March and December of 2020 than were carried out through the same time period in 2019.

Key Resources
Engage your regional primary care lead for support with cancer screening and sign up for the Provincial Primary Care and Cancer Network newsletter for regular cancer screening updates. Contact PrimaryCareInquiries@ontariohealth.ca for more information

Change Ideas

Redesign your system, and lever digital health solutions

  • Map your local processes with provincial pathway maps to build best practices for the management of patients

For attached patients, using reports such as MyPractice: PrimaryCare and the Screening Activity Report, and developing EMR reminder systems to recall patients due for cancer screening may be helpful. Consider patient preferences such as language, email, text, and phone. Add health promotion messages in reminders. Integrate with online appointment booking systems

Education and Training

Engage Patients

  • Provide patients with information about cancer screening. Integrate health promotion into reminder systems and scheduled visits
  • For patients without a primary care provider (unattached), prepare materials at points of entry into the system for self-referrals
      • Health811 (call 811 [TTY: 1-866-797-007] or use the live chat at ontario.ca/health811) to access the free ColonCancerCheck fecal immunochemical test (FIT) kit to screen for colon cancer or to find a clinic that does cervical screening
      • Ontario Breast Screening Program Locations(patients can self-refer)

  • Increase cancer screening participation among First Nations, Inuit, Métis and Urban Indigenous populations
      • The Indigenous Cancer Strategy sets to address and improve cancer care for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, and Urban Indigenous people in Ontario.
      • Review and incorporate into your practice the First Nations, Inuit, Métis and Urban Indigenous Cancer Screening Resources
      • Review and incorporate into your practice the Cancer 101 Toolkit for First Nations, Inuit, Métis, and Urban Indigenous people
      • Utilize the Indigenous Navigators in your region, who provide support and advocate for First Nations, Inuit, Métis and Urban Indigenous patients and families by:
        • Facilitating and coordinating access to palliative and supportive cancer care services
        • Addressing cultural and spiritual needs
        • Networking with Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners to make the cancer journey culturally safe
Emily Hayes True