Table 2.

Provider responses to 749 positive FOBT notifications and associated median times from notification to response (if any) pre and post implementation

Response following a positive FOBT	N (%)		P Value
	Median Pre-QI (n=379)	duration in days* Post-QI (n=370)
Appropriate response	216(57.5)	269(73.1)	<.0001
	18	6	<.0001
Inappropriate response	31(8.2)	6(1.6)	<.0001
	54	15	0.06
•Barium Enema ordered	9 (2.4)	4(1.1)
•Flexible Sigmoidoscopy ordered	0 (0.0)	1(0.3)
•Provider attributed positive FOBT to other non-colonic causes	12(28.6)	0(0.0)
•Provider repeated FOBT	8(19.1)	1(5.3)
•Provider documented that patient was not a candidate for work-up (did not meet exclusion criteria listed in Table 3)	2(4.8)	0(0.0)
Response not needed	66(17.5)	46(12.5)	0.0559
	92	6.5	0.0004
•Documentation by PCP of patient refusal	19 (5.0)	14(3.8)
•Documentation by PCP of patient having had test at other location	27(7.1)	21(5.7)
•Documentation of an exclusion criterion	3 (7.1)	0(0.0)
•Documentation of patient preference to have private physician perform the test	11(26.2)	9(47.4)
•Documentation of a previous colonoscopy performed elsewhere (within past 10 years)	6(14.3)	2(10.5)
No documented response	66 (17.4%)	49 (13.2%)	0.11

^*represented by shaded rows