Outreach and Inreach Organized Service Screening Programs for Colorectal Cancer

Outreach and Inreach Organized Service Screening Programs for Colorectal Cancer

BACKGROUND Outreach (i.e., to invite those who do not use, or who under use screening services) and inreach (i.e., to invite an existing population who have already accessed the medical system) approaches may influence people to increase their use of screening test; however, whether their outcomes would be equivalent remains unclear. METHODS A total of 3,363,896 subjects, 50-69 years of age, ...

Screening for prostate cancer: are organized screening programs necessary?

Already in 1991 when the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test was proposed as a diagnostic test, screening for prostate cancer (PCa) was considered controversial due to the considerable risk of detecting latent PCa. Randomised controlled trials were initiated to assess the potential of PSA-based screening in reducing disease-specific mortality. Harms and benefit were closely monitored and both ...

Organized breast cancer screening programs in Canada.

Organized colorectal cancer screening in integrated health care systems.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is an ideal target for early detection and prevention through screening. Noninvasive screening options are the guaiac fecal occult blood test and the fecal immunochemical test. Organized screening offers the promise of uniformly delivering screening to all members of a population who are eligible and due. Organized screening is defined as an explicit policy with defined ...

Inreach and outreach interventions to improve mammography use.

OBJECTIVE to assess the effectiveness of patient-targeted interventions in increasing mammography use when performed outside (outreach) or inside the primary care medical setting (inreach). METHODS We performed a meta-analysis of controlled interventions to increase mammography use in patients in the United States published between 1980 and February 2001. Interventions were classified by sett...