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. 2025 Jul 15;5:1595934. doi: 10.3389/frhs.2025.1595934

Table 3.

Participant recommendations to improve implementation of primary HPV cervical cancer screening.

Clinician training Patient education
  • Create a short (≈10 min) video for clinicians explaining the evidence for the practice change

  • Inform patients of the practice change PRIOR to the rollout

  • Plan for multiple reinforcement webinars post-rollout of the practice change

  • Deliver materials to patients directly rather than relying on providers to offer them to patients during busy visits

  • Communication and training opportunities targeting all staff should be standardized (e.g., nurses and physicians)

  • Offer different modes of patient education (i.e., posters, handouts, clinician scripts)

  • Provide communication about the practice change in (1) repeated and (2) multiple formats

  • Educate patients about the sequencing of testing (e.g., a reflexive PAP is performed if the HPV test is positive) and the time required for processing tests (to avoid patient anxiety while they await their results)

  • Account for retraining of new staff, float pool nurses and staff redeployments

  • Remove patient instruction templates referring to PAP test from any patient-facing materials; use “cervical cancer screening' instead