Percentage of adults 50-75 years of age who had appropriate screening for colorectal cancer

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The U. S. Preventive Services Task Force (2016) recommends screening for colorectal cancer starting at age 50 years and continuing until age 75 years. This is a Grade A recommendation (U.S. Preventive Services Task Force 2016). Screening tests: -Colonoscopy (every 10 years) -Flexible sigmoidoscopy (every 5 years) -Fecal occult blood test (annually) -FIT-DNA (every 3 years) -Computed tomographic colonography (every 5 years)

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. "Screening for Colorectal Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement." JAMA, vol. 315, no. 23, 2016, pp. 2564-2575. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.5989

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American Cancer Society. "Can Colorectal Polyps and Cancer Be Found Early?" Last modified March 2017. Washington, DC: American Cancer Society. Available at https://www.cancer.org/cancer/colon-rectal-cancer/detection-diagnosis-staging/detection.html.

Patient self-report for procedures as well as diagnostic studies should be recorded in "Procedure, Performed" template or "Diagnostic Study, Performed" template in QRDA-1. Do not count DRE, FOBT tests performed in an office setting or performed on a sample collected via DRE.