. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 16.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Gastroenterol. 2009 Mar 17;104(4):942–952. doi: 10.1038/ajg.2009.55

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of all patients (n = 800) with a positive FOBT result before and after implementation of QI activities

	N		Total	P value
	Pre-QI (1/1/03-12-31-03) n=401 (%)	Post-QI (3/1/06-2/28/07) n=399 (%)	Total	P value
Race
Black	99 (24.7%)	120 (30%)	219	0.27
Hispanic	2 (.5%)	3 (.7%)	5
Other	5 (1.2%)	7 (1.7%)	12
White non Hispanic	288 (71.8%)	260 (65.2%)	548
Gender
Female	12 (3%)	9 (2.2%)	21	0.52
Male	387 (96.5%)	387 (97%)	774
Appropriate for CRC screening
No	69 (17.2%)	66 (16.5%)	135	0.80
Yes	332 (82.8%)	333 (83.5%)	665
Colonoscopy referral or performance completed prior to FOBT positive report	22 (5.5%)	29 (7.3%)	51	0.30