- A newly developed quality performance measure focuses on completion of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening with a colonoscopy within 6 months of an abnormal stool-based screening test (SBT) in adults.
- A retrospective study of 20,581 adults aged 50-75 years from 38 health systems revealed that fewer than half (48%) had a follow-up colonoscopy within 180 days of an initial abnormal SBT for CRC.
- The low follow-up rates were attributed to the lack of tracking of this measure by clinicians and incorrect assumptions about higher follow-up rates.
- The proposed CRC screening completion measure addresses an important shortcoming in existing measures and aims to ensure complete screening for CRC by tracking the date and result of an SBT and the date of the follow-up colonoscopy.
- Health systems have the necessary data elements to track this measure, especially if they perform colonoscopies in-house, although it is not consistently done currently.
New Quality Measure Improves Follow-Up for CRC Screening (Medscape)
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