Table 2.
Receipt of and adherence to physician recommendations for colorectal cancer screening : bivariate results
| Received physician recommendations | Adherence to physician recommendations | |||||
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| Study population | All patients n=975, 100% | Recommended patients n=799, 82% | ||||
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| Variable | N | # (%)screened or recommended | bivariate p-value | N | # (%)screened | bivariate p-value |
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| Gender | .013 | .442 | ||||
| Male | 380 | 326 (85.8) | 326 | 239 (73.3) | ||
| Female | 595 | 47. (79.5) | 473 | 335 (70.8) | ||
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| Age | .624 | <.0001 | ||||
| 50–64 years | 627 | 511 (84.1) | 511 | 337 (65.9) | ||
| 65 years and over | 348 | 288 (82.8) | 288 | 237 (82.3) | ||
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| Marital status | .022 | .0002 | ||||
| Married | 611 | 514 (84.1) | 514 | 392 (76.3) | ||
| Unmarried | 364 | 285 (78.3) | 285 | 182 (63.9) | ||
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| Education level | .003 | .064 | ||||
| Less than college | 586 | 463 (79.0) | 463 | 321 (69.3) | ||
| College or grad school | 389 | 336 (86.4) | 336 | 253 (75.3) | ||
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| Race | .183 | .477 | ||||
| Black | 177 | 140 (79.1) | 140 | 97 (69.3) | ||
| Hispanic | 61 | 47 (77.1) | 47 | 38 (80.9) | ||
| Other | 43 | 32 (74.4) | 32 | 22 (68.8) | ||
| White | 694 | 580 (83.6) | 580 | 417 (71.9) | ||
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| Smoking status | .001 | <.0001 | ||||
| Non-smoker | 866 | 722 (83.4) | 722 | 539 (74.7) | ||
| Smoker | 109 | 77 (70.6) | 77 | 35 (45.5) | ||
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| Family history of CRC | .459 | .074 | ||||
| No family history | 889 | 726 (81.7) | 726 | 515 (70.9) | ||
| Family history | 86 | 73 (84.9) | 73 | 59 (80.8) | ||
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| Insurance | .025 | <.0001 | ||||
| Medicare | 330 | 267 (80.9) | 267 | 218 (81.7) | ||
| Medicaid | 54 | 43 (79.6) | 43 | 21 (48.8) | ||
| Private | 503 | 426 (84.7) | 426 | 290 (68.1) | ||
| Other or None | 88 | 63 (71.6) | 63 | 45 (71.4) | ||
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| BMI | .463 | .024 | ||||
| Normal | 323 | 265 (82.0) | 265 | 202 (76.2) | ||
| Overweight | 370 | 297 (80.3) | 297 | 197 (66.3) | ||
| Obese | 282 | 237 (84.0) | 237 | 175 (73.8) | ||
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| Length of time as a patient | .745 | .628 | ||||
| Less than 5 years | 526 | 433 (82.3) | 433 | 308 (71.1) | ||
| 5 years or more | 449 | 366 (81.5) | 366 | 266 (72.7) | ||
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| Number of visits in past 2 years | .523 | .817 | ||||
| Less than 8 visits | 657 | 542 (82.5) | 542 | 388 (71.6) | ||
| 8 visits or more | 318 | 257 (80.8) | 257 | 186 (72.4) | ||
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| Co-morbidity score | .530 | .711 | ||||
| 0 | 93 | 77 (82.8) | 77 | 58 (75.3) | ||
| 1 | 244 | 193 (79.1) | 193 | 133 (68.9) | ||
| 2 | 352 | 295 (83.8) | 295 | 213 (72.2) | ||
| 3 | 286 | 234 (81.8) | 234 | 170 (72.7) | ||