APRIL 9, 2018

Diagnostic Colonoscopy Follow-up After FIT: Even Private Systems Miss the Mark

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San Diego—Poor follow-up of patients with abnormal fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) is not limited to health care systems serving indigent people, according to a study from a large Texas health system.

“We thought, being a private hospital, our follow-up would be better than has been reported in government systems, but it was not,” said Trace Heavener, DO, of Baylor Scott & White Health, in Temple, Texas. “Not enough patients are getting diagnostic colonoscopy, and