About the PNSAT

Background

The Program Sustainability Assessment Tool (PSAT), a set of 40 quantitative items, was developed by Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. A new tool, the Clinical Sustainability Assessment Tool (CSAT), was later developed to assess sustainability capacity in clinical settings. Working in partnership with Washington University, the Patient Navigation Sustainability Assessment Tool (PNSAT) was first adapted by the Colorado Cancer Screening Program (CCSP) at the University of Colorado Cancer Center and Colorado School of Public Health in 2019 to fuse questions and concepts from the two tools. In 2023, a shortened version of the PNSAT was released by CCSP to improve ease of use and expand the focus beyond cancer screening navigation. The PNSAT contains adapted components of PSAT and CSAT items, plus open-ended probes that were originally adapted from work by the evaluation team at the Center for Managing Chronic Disease, University of Michigan. See the 2022 article published in Cancer for more information about the development and performance of the first version of the PNSAT.

 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. If you would like more information about Washington University's PSAT and CSAT, visit https://sustaintool.org.

 

Suggested citation for PNSAT short version: Staples ES and Dwyer AJ. (2023). Patient Navigation Sustainability Assessment Tool – Short Version. Colorado School of Public Health and University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO.

The "Practice"

Practice  is defined as the set of formal organized activities that you want to sustain over time. 

For patient navigation sustainability planning, the “Practice” refers to your clinic’s set of patient navigation services, and related systems changes that facilitate the use of patient navigators. This tool can be used to assess sustainability capacity for an organization’s overall patient navigation services or a subset of patient navigation activities for a particular intervention or program.

Using the PNSAT