Patient Satisfaction With Screening Flexible Sigmoidoscopy

Patient satisfaction with screening flexible sigmoidoscopy.

BACKGROUND Screening flexible sigmoidoscopy is an underused cancer prevention procedure. Physicians often cite patient discomfort as a reason for not requesting sigmoidoscopy, but patient experiences and attitudes toward sigmoidoscopy have not been well studied. OBJECTIVE To measure patient satisfaction and the determinants of satisfaction with screening sigmoidoscopy. METHODS An instrument...

Costs and value of screening flexible sigmoidoscopy.

Flexible sigmoidoscopy screening: is once enough?

www.thelancet.com Published online February 21, 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30542-1 1 Worldwide, colorectal cancer is the third most common incident cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancer death, with 1·4 million new cases and 700 000 deaths estimated in 2012—most of these from the developed world. Over the past three decades, several methods to screen for colorectal canc...

Reasons for noncompliance with five-yearly screening flexible sigmoidoscopy

OBJECTIVE To determine factors influencing the low return rate observed in a program of flexible sigmoidoscopy for average risk screening for colorectal carcinoma. METHODS Flexible sigmoidoscopy-based screening of average risk 55-64 yr olds has been ongoing since 1995. Greater than 3400 primary and 1000 follow up screening examinations have been performed. Participants with a primary screen i...

Colorectal-cancer incidence and mortality with screening flexible sigmoidoscopy.

BACKGROUND The benefits of endoscopic testing for colorectal-cancer screening are uncertain. We evaluated the effect of screening with flexible sigmoidoscopy on colorectal-cancer incidence and mortality. METHODS From 1993 through 2001, we randomly assigned 154,900 men and women 55 to 74 years of age either to screening with flexible sigmoidoscopy, with a repeat screening at 3 or 5 years, or t...