Modelling the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on the quality of population-based colorectal cancer screening.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected regular public health interventions including population-based cancer screening. Impacts of such screening delays on the changes in structure and screening process and the resultant long-term outcomes are unknown. It is therefore necessary to develop a systematic framework to assess theses impacts related to these components of quality. Using population-based cancer screening with fecal immunochemical test (FIT) as an illustration, the main analysis was to assess how various scenarios of screening delays were associated with the capacity for primary screening and full time equivalent (FTE) for colonoscopy and impact long-term outcomes based on a Markov decision tree model on population level. The second analysis was to quantify how the extent of COVI

SUBMITTER: Jen GH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8241682 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature