Cancer Prevention & Control, Provider-Oriented Screening Interventions: Provider Assessment & Feedback

(2008 Archived Review)

Task Force Finding*

Provider assessment and feedback interventions are intended to evaluate provider performance in delivering or offering screening to clients (assessment) and then present providers with information about their performance in providing screening (feedback). Feedback can address the performance of a group of providers or an individual provider, and can include a comparison of that performance with a goal or standard.

On the basis of sufficient evidence of effectiveness in increasing screening for breast cancer (mammography), cervical cancer (Pap test), and colorectal cancer (FOBT), the Task Force recommends the use of provider assessment and feedback interventions. Evidence was insufficient, however, to determine the effectiveness of this intervention in increasing colorectal cancer screening using methods other than FOBT.

*From the following publication:

Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Recommendations for client- and provider-directed interventions to increase breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening. [PDF - 73KB] Am J Prev Med 2008;35(1S):21-5.