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Calculating screening rates for bowel cancer: methodologies explained
Calculating screening rates for bowel cancer: methodologies explained
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Topic: Cancer screening
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AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2010) Calculating screening rates for bowel cancer: methodologies explained, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 20 April 2024.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2010). Calculating screening rates for bowel cancer: methodologies explained. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Calculating screening rates for bowel cancer: methodologies explained. AIHW, 2010.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Calculating screening rates for bowel cancer: methodologies explained. Canberra: AIHW; 2010.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2010, Calculating screening rates for bowel cancer: methodologies explained, AIHW, Canberra.
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Although similar concepts, the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program participation monitoring indicator and the National Healthcare Agreement key performance indicator for bowel cancer screening (PI-12) are different measures. Consequently, they produce different results. This paper describes and explains the differences between the two indicators.
- ISSN: 1039-3307
- ISBN: 978-1-74249-068-7
- Cat. no: CAN 54
- Pages: 14
Findings from this report:
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Crude participation is the proportion of people invited to participate in a given year that completed the FOBT kit
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To account for the time lag between invitation and participation, an estimated participation rate is calculated
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The estimated participation rate is calculated using Kaplan-Meier survival techniques