Low rates of follow-up colonoscopy after an abnormal stool-based screening test may be improved by a simple quality performance measure, researchers said.
Receive email when new articles are published onA newly developed quality performance measure that tracks completion of colorectal cancer screening with a colonoscopy within 6 months of an abnormal stool-based screening test in adults could help address high rates of incomplete CRC screening, the developers said.
The CRC screening completion measure the researchers propose "builds on and addresses an important shortcoming in an existing measure and will help ensure complete screening for CRC," they noted in theirThe key elements of the follow-up measure are the date and result of a SBT and the date of the follow-up colonoscopy — if it occurred, Ciemins explained.
"Three AMGA member health systems feasibility tested the data elements and found that they could reliably abstract the required elements from electronic health records ," she toldThe researchers are currently testing the measure among 20 AMGA member health systems, that are submitting quarterly data on a version of the specified measure.
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