Featured Articles

Guidelines

• Screening for Colorectal Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement
  U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
• American College of Gastroenterology Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer Screening 2008
  Douglas K. Rex, MD, FACG, David A. Johnson, MD, FACG, Joseph C. Anderson, MD, Phillip S. Schoenfeld, MD, MSEd, MSc (Epi), FACG, Craol A. Burke, MD, FACG, and John M. Inadomi, MD, FACG
• New Screening Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer: A Practical Guide for the Primary Care Physician
  Dr. James E. Allison and Dr. Michael B. Potter

About Fecal Occult Blood Tests and Fecal Immunochemical Tests

• CDC Morbidity and Mortality Report on Colorectal Cancer Screening Test Use
  Carrie N. Klabunde, PhD, Djenaba A. Joseph, MD, Jessica B. King, MPH, Arica White, PhD, Marcus Plescia, MD
• The Role of Fecal Occult Blood Testing in Screening for Colorectal Cancer
  Dr. James E. Allison
• Fecal Immunochemical Tests (FIT) versus Office-Based Guaiac Fecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT)
  Dr. Graeme P. Young
• Fecal Occult Blood Testing Has Great Potential as a Screening Tool for Colorectal Cancer
  John Henry Dreyfuss

Quality of Screening Practices

• Fecal Occult Blood Testing Beliefs and Practices of U.S. Primary Care Physicians: Serious Deviations from Evidence-Based Recommendations
  Marion R. Nadel, PhD, Zahava Berkowitz, MSPH, Carrie N. Klabunde, PhD, Robert A. Smith, PhD, Steven S. Coughlin, PhD, and Mary C. White, ScD
• Accuracy of Screening for Fecal Occult Blood on a Single Stool Sample Obtained by Digital Rectal Examination: A Comparison with Recommended Sampling Practice
  Judith F. Collins, MD; David A. Lieberman, MD; Theodore E. Durbin, MD; David G. Weiss, PhD; and the Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study #380 Group
• The Quality of Colonoscopy Services - Responsibilities of Referring Clinicians: A Consensus Statement of the Quality Assurance Task Group, National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable
  Robert H. Fletcher, MD, MSc, Marion R. Nadel, PhD, John I. Allen, MD, Jason A. Dominitz, MD, MHS, Douglas O. Faigel, MD, David A. Johnson, MD, Dorothy S. Lane, MD, David Lieberman, MD, John B. Pope, MD, Michael B. Potter, MD, Deborah P. Robin, RN, MSN, Paul C. Schroy III MD, MPH, and Robert A. Smith, PhD
• Standardized Colonoscopy Reporting and Data System: Report of the Quality Assurance Task Group of the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable
  David Lieberman, MD, Marion Nadel, PhD, Robert A. Smith, PhD, Wendy Atkin, PhD, Subash B. Duggirala, MD, MPH, FAAFP, Robert Fletcher, MD, MSc, Seth N. Glick, MD, C. Daniel Johnson, MD, Theodore R. Levin, MD, John B. Pope, MD, Michael B. Potter, MD, David Ransohoff, MD, Douglas Rex, MD, Robert Schoen, MD, Paul Schroy, MD, Sidney Winawer, MD
• Quality in the Technical Performance of Colonoscopy and the Continuous Quality Improvement Process for Colonoscopy: Recommendations of the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer
  Douglas K. Rex, M.D., John H. Bond, M.D., Sidney Winawer, M.D., Theodore R. Levin, M.D.,
  Randall W. Burt, M.D., David A. Johnson, M.D., Lynne M. Kirk, M.D., Scott Litlin, M.D.,
  David A. Lieberman, M.D., Jerome D. Waye, M.D., James Church, M.D., John B. Marshall, M.D., and Robert H. Riddell, M.D.

Approaches to Increase Screening

• Diabetes and Colorectal Cancer: Shared Risk, Shared Screening
  Alabama Department of Public Health
• CDC Vital Signs: Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests Save Lives
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Alabama Survey of Endoscopic Capacity
  Diane Manninen, PhD, Frederick Doug, AM, Linda Winges, MA
• The Effectiveness of a Secure Email Reminder System for Colorectal Cancer Screening
  David Muller, MD, Judith Logan, MD, MS, David Dorr, MD, and David Mosen, PhD, MPH
• Pharmacy-Based Interventions Can Increase Rate of CRC Screenings
  Dr. Jayashri Sankaranarayanan
• Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Screening: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2002 and 2004
  Natalie D. Crawford, MPH, Camara P. Jones, MD, PhD, Lisa C. Richardson, MD, MPH
• A Trial of Three Interventions to Promote Colorectal Cancer Screening in African Americans
  Daniel S. Blumenthal, MD, MPH; Selina A. Smith, PhD, MDiv; Charlye D. Majett, MBA; and Ernest Alema-Mensah, PhD
• Integrated System Nearly Doubles Colorectal Cancer Screening Rate Through Distribution of Inhome Kit and Followup with Nonresponders
  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• New Screening Approach FIT to Fight Colorectal Cancer in the U.S. Kaiser Permanente Southern California Increases Colorectal Cancer Screening Rate by Almost 50 Percent, Significantly Reduces New Cases and Advanced Stage Cancer
  Polymedco, Inc. and PR Newswire
• Accuracy of Self-Reported Reason for Colorectal Cancer Testing
  Jan M. Eberth, Sally W. Vernon, Arica White, Peter N. Abotchie, and Sharon P. Coan
• The Colorectal Cancer Control Program: partnering to increase population level screening
  Djenaba A Joseph, M.D., MPH, Amy S. DeGroff, PhD, MPH, Nikki S. Hayes, MPH, Faye L. Wong, MPH, Marcus Plescia, M.D., MPH