Early Adoption of a Multitarget Stool DNA Test for Colorectal Cancer Screening.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To characterize early adoption of a novel multitarget stool DNA (MT-sDNA) screening test for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and to test the hypothesis that adoption differs by demographic characteristics and prior CRC screening behavior and proceeds predictably over time.

Patients and methods

We used the Rochester Epidemiology Project research infrastructure to assess the use of the MT-sDNA screening test in adults aged 50 to 75 years living in Olmsted County, Minnesota, in 2014 and identified 27,147 individuals eligible or due for screening colonoscopy from November 1, 2014, through November 30, 2015. We used electronic Current Procedure Terminology and Health Care Common Procedure codes to evaluate early adoption of the MT-sDNA screening test in this populati

SUBMITTER: Finney Rutten LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5505626 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature