Clinical Preventive Medicine
Familiarity With and Use of Insufficient Evidence Findings From the Community Preventive Services Task Force
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) is an independent, nonfederal panel of experts that uses systematic reviews to develop recommendations about community preventive services and programs to improve population health. The CPSTF issues an insufficient evidence (IE) finding when the evidence is lacking, inconsistent, or has significant methodologic limitations. An IE finding indicates a need for more research.1 The NIH partners with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Community Guide Office to support the CPSTF in making evidence-based recommendations and identifying research gaps.Time to Follow-up After Colorectal Cancer Screening by Health Insurance Type
The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that patients with Medicaid insurance or Medicaid-like coverage would have longer times to follow-up and be less likely to complete colonoscopy compared with patients with commercial insurance within the same healthcare systems.Lung Cancer Screening Inconsistent With U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations
Prior studies suggest overuse of nonrecommended lung cancer screening tests in U.S. community practice and underuse of recommended tests.Influence of Age and Comorbidity on Colorectal Cancer Screening in the Elderly
Expert recommendations differ for colorectal cancer screening in the elderly. Recent studies suggest that healthy adults aged >75 years may benefit from screening. This study examined screening use and follow-up, and how they varied by health status within age strata, among a large cohort of elderly individuals in community settings.Follow-Up of Abnormal Breast and Colorectal Cancer Screening by Race/Ethnicity
Timely follow-up of abnormal tests is critical to the effectiveness of cancer screening, but may vary by screening test, healthcare system, and sociodemographic group.Breast and Colorectal Cancer Screening: U.S. Primary Care Physicians' Reports of Barriers
Primary care physicians (PCPs) play a key role in performing and referring patients for cancer screening. Understanding barriers to test use is critical to developing strategies that promote adherence to clinical guidelines, but current literature does not distinguish the extent to which barriers may be similar or unique across screening modalities.
