{"id":12315,"date":"2022-06-17T11:19:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T09:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/?post_type=ec-news&#038;p=12315"},"modified":"2022-06-17T11:19:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T09:19:08","slug":"actual-impact-of-covid-19-on-crc-8-7-reduction-and-advanced-adenoma-26-9-reduction-diagnoses-in-a-u-s-health-care-system","status":"publish","type":"ec-news","link":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/actual-impact-of-covid-19-on-crc-8-7-reduction-and-advanced-adenoma-26-9-reduction-diagnoses-in-a-u-s-health-care-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Actual Impact of COVID-19 on CRC (8.7% Reduction) and Advanced Adenoma (26.9% Reduction) Diagnoses in a U.S. Health Care System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This study utilized the Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) health care system to evaluate the actual impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on colorectal cancer (CRC). This health care system, which primarily uses mailed fecal immunochemical test (FIT) kits for CRC screening, halted mailings of FIT kits in March and April 2020. KPNC also paused most elective colonoscopies in those months, but it had ramped back up to full performance by September 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In total, in 2020 compared with 2019, there was an eventual 8.7% increase in mailed FIT kits (in response to decreased availability of elective colonoscopy services) but 9% fewer FITs completed and 10.1% fewer positive tests. Total colonoscopies were down 26.9% in 2020, and there was an 8.7% reduction in CRC cases diagnosed and a 26.9% reduction in diagnoses of advanced adenoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study utilized the Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) health care system to evaluate the actual impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on colorectal cancer (CRC). This health care system, which primarily uses mailed fecal immunochemical test (FIT) kits for CRC screening, halted mailings of FIT kits in March and April 2020. KPNC also paused most &#8230; <a title=\"Actual Impact of COVID-19 on CRC (8.7% Reduction) and Advanced Adenoma (26.9% Reduction) Diagnoses in a U.S. Health Care System\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/actual-impact-of-covid-19-on-crc-8-7-reduction-and-advanced-adenoma-26-9-reduction-diagnoses-in-a-u-s-health-care-system\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Actual Impact of COVID-19 on CRC (8.7% Reduction) and Advanced Adenoma (26.9% Reduction) Diagnoses in a U.S. Health Care System\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1768,1769],"tags":[2058,1823,1955,1343,1826,1898,3321,3322,2867],"class_list":["post-12315","ec-news","type-ec-news","status-publish","hentry","category-asge-journal-scan","category-asge-kolon","tag-colon-2","tag-colorectal-cancer","tag-covid-19","tag-crc","tag-fecal-immunochemical-test","tag-fit","tag-kaiser-permanente-northern-california","tag-kpnc","tag-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news\/12315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ec-news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}