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1948-5204 (online) |
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| Category |
Gastroenterology & Hepatology |
| Manuscript Type |
Observational Study |
| Article Title |
Academic hospital staff compliance with a fecal immunochemical test-based colorectal cancer screening program
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| Manuscript Source |
Invited Manuscript |
| All Author List |
Georgia Vlachonikolou, Paraskevas Gkolfakis, Athanasios D Sioulas, Ioannis S Papanikolaou, Anastasia Melissaratou, Giannis-Aimant Moustafa, Eleni Xanthopoulou, Gerasimos Tsilimidos, Ioanna Tsironi, Paraskevas Filippidis, Chrysoula Malli, George D Dimitriadis and Konstantinos Triantafyllou |
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| Corresponding Author |
Athanasios D Sioulas, MD, PhD, Hepatogastroenterology Unit, Second Department of Internal Medicine and Research Institute, Attikon University General Hospital, Medical School, University of Athens, 1 Rimini Street, 12462 Athens, Greece. athsioulas@yahoo.gr |
| Key Words |
Colorectal cancer; Screening; Academic hospital staff; Fecal immunochemical test; Compliance |
| Core Tip |
The fecal immunochemical test (FIT) for hemoglobin represents an attractive alternative to colonoscopy for population colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programs, since it combines high diagnostic effectiveness and wide acceptance, probably in relation to its non-invasive nature. Accordingly, we assessed the compliance of the staff of an Academic Hospital with a CRC screening program by means of FIT. Despite the well-organized, guided and supervised provision of the service, our results indicated very low overall uptake rate of the test and, interestingly, significantly less compliance of physicians and nurses as compared to the rest Hospital personnel. |
| Publish Date |
2016-08-09 08:50 |
| Citation |
Vlachonikolou G, Gkolfakis P, Sioulas AD, Papanikolaou IS, Melissaratou A, Moustafa GA, Xanthopoulou E, Tsilimidos G, Tsironi I, Filippidis P, Malli C, Dimitriadis GD, Triantafyllou K. Academic hospital staff compliance with a fecal immunochemical test-based colorectal cancer screening program. World J Gastrointest Oncol 2016; 8(8): 629-634 |
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http://www.wjgnet.com/1948-5204/full/v8/i8/629.htm |
| DOI |
http://dx.doi.org/10.4251/wjgo.v8.i8.629 |
