Breast Cancer: Capacity Building for Providers and Staff

What to know

The capacity building for providers and staff focus area includes tools and resources for health care staff to increase knowledge and skills, improve cancer screening practices, and monitor and report on screening performance.

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Introduction

This page is part of the Breast Cancer Screening Change Package.

You've selected a focus area. Next, select a change concept.
Instructions to navigate this page.

Change concepts are "general notions that are useful for developing more specific strategies for changing a process."1 Change ideas are evidence-based or practice-based "actionable, specific ideas or strategies."1 Each change idea is linked to tools and resources that can be used or adapted to improve cancer screening.

Note: See a list of acronyms used in this change package.

Select a change concept:

Change concept: Increase provider and staff knowledge, skills, and motivation to improve screening.

Change concept: Prepare the clinical team.

Change concept: Provide individual and system-level feedback on screening measures.

  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tobacco Cessation Change Package. US Department of Health and Human Services; 2019.
  • This resource may contain some information that does not reflect the current US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations for breast cancer screening.