Patients who visited their primary care provider (PCP) at least once in a 12-month period were nearly twice as likely to have follow-up colorectal cancer (CRC) screening than those who did not, according to a study (J Gen Intern Med 2016 Jun 8. [Epub ahead of print], PMID: 27279097).
The investigators examined the associations between PCP visits in 2011 and CRC screening activity in 2012 for 968,072 patients aged 50 to 74 years. The noncurrent screening status was defined as no colonoscopy