The appropriateness of more intensive colonoscopy screening than recommended in Medicare beneficiaries: a modeling study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Many Medicare beneficiaries undergo more intensive colonoscopy screening than recommended. Whether this is favorable for beneficiaries and efficient from a societal perspective is uncertain.

Objective

To determine whether more intensive colonoscopy screening than recommended is favorable for Medicare beneficiaries (ie, whether it results in a net health benefit) and whether it is efficient from a societal perspective (ie, whether the net health benefit justifies the additional resources required).

Design, setting, and participants

Microsimulation modeling study of 65-year-old Medicare beneficiaries at average risk for colorectal cancer (CRC) and with an average life expectancy who underwent a screening colonoscopy at 55 years with negative results.

Inter

SUBMITTER: van Hees F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4416697 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature