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Delaware
Success
Stories: DELAWARE
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- Quality
Insights of Delaware worked to reduce mammography disparities in the
state’s
largest county by educating opinion leaders and raising awareness about
mammography. Through a Quality Insight-led local coalition, called
Ma ture African Americans for Ma mmography (MAAM), the QIO invited
community members to educational meetings and asked them to share information
with family, friends, and others. They also developed interventions
such as the Call-a-Friend program, which involved women calling other
women to discuss the importance of annual screenings and encourage
them to schedule mammography appointments. The project increased the
mammography rate for the targeted population by 12.3 percentage points,
while simultaneously reducing the mammography disparity in the county
by 1.6 points. During the same period, the disparity rate in the control county worsened by
1.2 percentage points. In 2002, Quality Insights ceded operation of the MAAM
Coalition to the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition.
- Green Valley
Pavilion Nursing Home cuts percentage of patients reporting serious
pain from 39% to 3%: Quality Insights, the Delaware QIO, worked in
2002-2003 with the staff of Green Valley Pavilion by providing resources
in the areas of pain assessment and pain management, such as tracking
pain via flow sheets, and conducting sharing sessions and workshops.
These practices have practically eliminated pain for long-term residents
at Green Valley Pavilion.
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