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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 12.
Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2011 Jun 7;32(1):198–208. doi: 10.1177/0272989X11406285

Table 1.

Percent of patients due and overdue for CRC screening screened by each method by PCP cluster

Cluster
Patient* Screening Rate by Method (%) Balanced FOBT FOBT & Flex Sig Colonoscopy & FOBT p-value
FOBT only 13.1a 18.8a,b,c 12.6b 15.6c <.001
FOBT & FS 1.6a,b 0.4a,c 1.9c,d 0.1b,d <.001
FS only 1.6a,b,c 0.5a,d,e 2.4b,d,f 0.1c,e,f <.001
Colonoscopy 3.3a,b 1.7a,c 2.0b 3.3c .006
Any endoscopy 6.47ab 2.58ac 6.29cd 3.54bd <.001
DCBE 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.02 .050

Means within a row with the same superscript (a,b,c,d) are significantly different from one another based on LSD post hoc tests

*

Mean % per PCP of patients due or over-due for CRC screening as of January 1, 2009 who were screened by June 30, 2009

Endoscopy- either FS, FS+FOBT, or colonoscopy

FOBT- fecal occult blood test, FS-flexible sigmoidoscopy, DCBE-double contrast barium enema