Reactions to a Targeted Intervention to Increase Fecal Occult Blood Testing among Average-Risk Adults Waiting for Screening Colonoscopy

S Elizabeth McGregor; Paul Ritvo; Jill Tinmouth; Ashley Kornblum; Ronald Myers; Robert J Hilsden; Lawrence F Paszat; Linda Rabeneck

doi:10.1155/2011/397302

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology (Jan 2011)

Reactions to a Targeted Intervention to Increase Fecal Occult Blood Testing among Average-Risk Adults Waiting for Screening Colonoscopy

S Elizabeth McGregor,
Paul Ritvo,
Jill Tinmouth,
Ashley Kornblum,
Ronald Myers,
Robert J Hilsden,
Lawrence F Paszat,
Linda Rabeneck

Affiliations

S Elizabeth McGregor: Alberta Health Services – Cancer Care, Canada
Paul Ritvo: School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Canada
Jill Tinmouth: Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
Ashley Kornblum: School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Canada
Ronald Myers: Division of Population Science, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Robert J Hilsden: Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Lawrence F Paszat: Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
Linda Rabeneck: Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/397302
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 25, no. 5
pp. 248 – 252

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Increasing demand combined with limited capacity has resulted in long wait times for average-risk adults referred for screening colonoscopy for colorectal cancer. Management of patients on these growing wait lists is an emerging clinical issue.

Published in Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology

ISSN: 0835-7900 (Print); 1916-7237 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1720

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