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- Title
Offering Annual Fecal Occult Blood Tests at Annual Flu Shot Clinics Increases Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates.
- Authors
Potter, Michael B.; Phengrasamy, La; Hudes, Esther S.; McPhee, Stephen J.; Walsh, Judith M. E.
- Abstract
The article presents a study that the significance of providing home fecal occult blood test (FOBT) kits to eligible patients during influenza inoculation clinics on higher colorectal cancer screening rates in the U.S. The study was conducted to 514 patients aged 50-79 years. The results revealed that FOBT screening rates increased by 4.4 percent in the control group and by 29.8 percent in the intervention group.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEDICAL research; COLON cancer; FECAL occult blood tests; INFLUENZA vaccines
- Publication
Annals of Family Medicine, 2009, Vol 7, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
1544-1709
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1370/afm.934