Colorectal Cancer Screening After Sequential Outreach Components in a Demographically Diverse Cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Organized screening outreach can reduce differences in colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality between demographic subgroups. Outcomes associated with additional outreach, beyond universal outreach, are not well known.

Objective

To compare CRC screening completion by race and ethnicity, age, and sex after universal automated outreach and additional personalized outreach.

Design, setting, and participants

This observational cohort study included screening-eligible individuals aged 50 to 75 years assessed during 2019 in a community-based organized CRC screening program within the Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) integrated health care delivery setting. For KPNC members who are not up to date with screening by colonoscopy, each year the pro

SUBMITTER: Podmore C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11022110 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature