Find tools to help you in your practice, including sample screening and follow-up reminders for your patients, and more.
Many patients don’t follow through with scheduling a screening appointment or follow-up visit. You can customize the letters and phone scripts below for your own practice to make sure patients take the next vital step in screening.
Created by clinicians for clinicians, this interactive Web-based toolbox can help improve colorectal cancer screening in actual practice. It provides state of the science information, advice to help make your screening practices more efficient, and tools for use in your practice. Also available as a PDF [3.18Mb].
A shorter version of the toolbox above, this brief guide pulls together the most important material from the full action plan, including charts, templates and sample materials that clinicians can put to use. Also available as a PDF [1.32Mb].
New Medicare beneficiaries are eligible for an initial physical exam within one year of enrollment.
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