Common Sense Family Doctor
JANUARY 19, 2025
Most patients who choose colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer are referred from primary care to a gastroenterologist or other specialist who performs endoscopy. But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
clinical consensus, financing mechanisms) and the organization (e.g., Study design and analysis Quasi-experimental design with implementation evaluation guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR; Damschroder et al., Setting Primary care settings in the DAC-SP early detection program.
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Permanente Medicine
APRIL 29, 2025
A new Kaiser Permanente study showed how an integrated colorectal cancer screening program cut cancer deaths in half, reduced incidence by nearly a third, and erased racial health disparities in screenings, incidence, and death rates. underscoring the need to raise awareness, screen proactively, and improve treatment.
Permanente Medicine
JUNE 25, 2025
By building an integrated, patient-centered colorectal cancer screening program, we doubled screening rates, cut deaths by 50%, and made major strides in closing racial disparities in outcomes. The approach was simple: consistently alert patients that it’s time to get screened and make getting screened as easy as possible.
GeriPal
MARCH 10, 2022
Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Many years ago for the first study; I believe it was in 2009, 2010; I met with Susan Mitchell at the Institute for Aging Research, and told her that I wanted to study the use of feeding tubes for people with advanced dementia. Ruth: Sure.
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