Trends in and factors associated with family physician‐performed screening colonoscopies in the United States: 2016‐2021
Nicholas Edwardson,
David van der Goes,
V. Shane Pankratz
et al.
Abstract:PurposeFamily physician (FP)‐performed screening colonoscopies can serve as 1 strategy in the multifaceted strategy necessary to improve national colorectal cancer screening rates, particularly in rural areas where specialist models can fail. However, little research exists on the performance of this strategy in the real world. In this study, we evaluated trends in and factors associated with FP‐performed screening colonoscopies in the United States between 2016 and 2021.MethodsUsing national data from Merativ… Show more
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