Overuse of colorectal cancer screening services in the United States and its implications

As a standard way for prevention and early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC), colonoscopy has been used for CRC screening in the United States for more than one decade. An article entitled “Assessing Colorectal Cancer Screening Adherence of Medicare Fee-For-Service Beneficiaries Age 76 to 95 Year...

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Autor principal: Bian, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Highlight
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5025621/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27634405
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40880-016-0148-5
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description As a standard way for prevention and early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC), colonoscopy has been used for CRC screening in the United States for more than one decade. An article entitled “Assessing Colorectal Cancer Screening Adherence of Medicare Fee-For-Service Beneficiaries Age 76 to 95 Years” recently published at the Journal of Oncology Practice reports the trends in overuse of CRC screening services among average-risk elderly populations at the age of 76–95 years. Several reasons for overusing colonoscopy have been postulated, and some strategies for reducing overuse of CRC screening services have also been proposed.
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spelling pubmed-50256212016-09-22 Overuse of colorectal cancer screening services in the United States and its implications Bian, John Chin J Cancer Research Highlight As a standard way for prevention and early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC), colonoscopy has been used for CRC screening in the United States for more than one decade. An article entitled “Assessing Colorectal Cancer Screening Adherence of Medicare Fee-For-Service Beneficiaries Age 76 to 95 Years” recently published at the Journal of Oncology Practice reports the trends in overuse of CRC screening services among average-risk elderly populations at the age of 76–95 years. Several reasons for overusing colonoscopy have been postulated, and some strategies for reducing overuse of CRC screening services have also been proposed. BioMed Central 2016-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5025621/ /pubmed/27634405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40880-016-0148-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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