Centralized Colorectal Cancer Screening Outreach in Federally Qualified Health Centers: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is effective but remains underused in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs).

Objective

To assess the effectiveness of a centralized CRC screening outreach intervention involving mailed fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) outreach and patient navigation to colonoscopy after abnormal results of FIT.

Design, setting, and participants

A pragmatic randomized clinical trial was conducted, using intention-to-treat analysis. Participants were enrolled from July 6, 2020, to September 17, 2021, and analyses were performed from July 6, 2023, to January 31, 2024. The study was conducted at independent FQHCs comprising 12 clinical delivery sites in North Carolina. The outreach intervention was centralized at an academic cancer cente

SUBMITTER: Reuland DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11589799 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature