Additional offer of sigmoidoscopy in colorectal cancer screening in Germany: rationale and protocol of the decision-analytic modelling approach in the SIGMO study

• Melanie Brinkmann,
• Leonie Diedrich,
• Christian Krauth,
• Maren Dreier,
• Wendelin Schramm

Affiliations

Melanie Brinkmann

Institute for Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health Systems Research, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Leonie Diedrich

Institute for Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health Systems Research, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Christian Krauth

Institute for Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health Systems Research, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Maren Dreier

Institute for Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health Systems Research, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Wendelin Schramm

GECKO Institute for Medicine, Informatics and Economics, Heilbronn University, Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany