Table 2.

Overview of example studies^*

Level	Margolis (107)	Dietrich (24)	Dietrich (108,109)	Feldstein (110–112)
Design	Observational intervention study	Randomized controlled trial†	Randomized controlled trial	Randomized controlled trials
Focus	Preventive services and health behavior	Sun protection	Screening for breast, colorectal, and cervical cancer	Mammography, colonoscopy
Person/Family	Low-income pregnant mothers, and their children <2 years	Children 2–9 years in day care and school	Patients in MMC	Only through patient barriers
Practice	Primary care and home visits	Primary care	Six primary care practices where patients received care were introduced to project and USPSTF cancer screening guidelines	Removing burden and responsibility from provider, but providing feedback to teams
Health-care system	Multilevel advisory committee included Medicaid representatives		MMC organization provided trained bilingual staff to conduct telephone outreach and claims data to select patients and to evaluate the intervention	Researchers work with operations teams; increased availability of mammograms
Community	Community organization and town and state government	Town beaches

^*MMC = Medicaid Managed Care; USPSTF = US Preventive Services Task Force.

^†Cancer Control P.L.A.N.E.T. sponsored by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, American Cancer Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Commission on Cancer, National Cancer Institute, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Research-tested Intervention Programs (RTIPs). Sun Safe http://rtips.cancer.gov/rtips/programDetails.do?programId=180266.