Table 6.

Management and IT practices among clinics implementing mailed fecal testing (n = 108)

	n	%
Management of mailed fecal testing
By both the health system and clinic	6	5.6
By health system only	57	52.8
By clinic only	43	39.8
By neither health system nor clinic	2	1.9
Monitoring mailed fecal testing
Both the number of FIT/FOBT kits distributed and the number returned	73	67.6
FIT/FOBT distribution only	7	6.5
Return only	6	5.6
Neither distribution nor return	10	9.3
Don’t know	12	11.1
Health Information Technologies
Uses health IT to:
Track results of FIT/FOBT to follow up with patients with abnormal results	95	88.0
Ensure patients with abnormal or positive FIT/FOBT are referred for colonoscopy	95	88.0
Track distribution and/or return of FIT/FOBT kits	81	75.0
Track colonoscopy and follow-up colonoscopy results	95	88.0

IT information technology, FIT fecal immunochemical test, FOBT fecal occult blood test