Becker's Healthcare November 18, 2024
A new study from Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente found that patients who receive a positive fecal test often delay undergoing colonoscopy – the recommended procedure following a positive diagnosis.
Instead of undergoing colonoscopies, the study found that patients instead repeat fecal testing. Among patients who repeated the fecal test, over half did not have a colonoscopy within a year.
The study examined data from hundreds of thousands of medical records and interviewed dozens of patients between the ages 50 and 89 who had positive fecal tests between 2010 and 2018 at four different health systems.
It found that only 41% of patients who had two positive fecal tests scheduled a colonoscopy within a year of their initial positive fecal...
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