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SUBMITTER: Caron M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6082993 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Caron Mireille M Lamarre Gabriel G Grégoire Philippe P Simonyan David D Laflamme Nathalie N
Preventive medicine reports 20180804
<h4>Background and aims</h4>FIT's value has been ascertained across Canada and worldwide, but still needs to be assessed within the province of Quebec. There also remains a gap between formal indications for FIT, and its actual use in clinical practice. This research aims to evaluate some aspects of FIT's effectiveness in our setting, and its application by prescribers.<h4>Methods</h4>We retrospectively identified and reviewed all the colonoscopies conducted for a positive FIT in 2014 at 2 hospi ...[more]