PS1-33: Cancer Screening Guideline Development, Implementation and Dissemination: Connection Points for Researchers and Health Care Delivery Systems for Comparative Effectiveness Research

Background/Aims Cancer Screening Effectiveness And Research in Community-based Healthcare (SEARCH) involves 8 Cancer Research Network (CRN) sites and includes two comparative effectiveness research (CER) proof-of-principle studies anchored in colorectal and cervical cancer screening. This portion of the project was designed to: understand how cancer screening guidelines are developed, implemented and disseminated at each site; identify the appropriate clinical leads within each health plan to further engage in bidirectional discussions about future comparative effectiveness cancer screening research and to help disseminate SEARCH findings across the CRN sites; and identify opportunities for researchers and clinical leaders to collaborate on informing each other and/or conducting comparative effectiveness research together. Methods We conducted 18 semi-structured interviews with clinical leaders across 8 health plans (GHC, Geisinger, Marshfield, Fallon, Harvard Pilgrim, Kaiser: Northwest, Hawaii, Northern California) and with one State-wide quality improvement group.