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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 20.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Causes Control. 2018 Dec 14;30(2):169–175. doi: 10.1007/s10552-018-1109-x

Table 2.

Clinic and patient characteristics, costs, and screening uptake by health system

Awardee Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Washington State Department
of Health
West Virginia University
Partner (# of clinic sites) Health System 1 (9) Health System 2 (4) Health System 3 (9) Health System 4(1)
Patients age 50–75 years (N) 10,933 6,421 15,516 3,012
 Female (%) 64.8 72.9 59.7 52.0
 Uninsured (%) 12.0 11.5 15.9 4.0
 Race and ethnicity (%)
  Non-Hispanic White 55.2 61.8 44.1 98.0
  Non-Hispanic Black 1.5 1.8 12.3 0.0
  Hispanic 38.7 35.1 NR NR
  Other/unknown 4.6 1.3 43.6 2
Evidence-based interventions implemented
 Patient reminder systems
 Provider reminder systems
 Provider assessment and feedback
 Reduction of structural barriers
Intervention evaluated Multicomponent interventions
implemented over a 2-year
period
Multicomponent interventions
implemented over a 3-year
period
Mailed FIT and outreach
activities to increase FIT
uptake over a 12-month period
Multicomponent interventions
implemented over a 12-month
period
Time period
 Baseline 7/2012–6/2013 7/2013–6/2014 7/2014–6/2015 11/2015–12/2015
 Implementation 7/2013–6/2015 7/2014–6/2017 7/2015–6/2016 1/2016–12/2016
Screening uptake (%)
 Baseline 21.1 25.7 51.2 38.3
 Implementationa 39.2 35.4 58.3 57.2
 Change in screening uptake 18.1 9.7 7.1 18.9
Intervention implementation phase cost ($) $60,224 $27,497 $30,148 $13,278
Additional persons screened (#) 2,533b 943c 1,607 332
Based on changes between
baseline and implementation
Based on changes between
baseline and implementation
Based on number of individu-
als who returned FIT kitd
Based on changes between
baseline and implementation
Incremental intervention cost per person successfully screened ($) $23.78 $29.16 $18.76 $40.00

NR not reported

a

Screening uptake was assessed for the last 12-month period of implementation

b

The calculation for the additional person screened was for the 2-year period

c

The calculation for the additional person screened was for the 3-year period

d

The fecal immunochemical test (FIT) return rate for Washington was 31%