Patient prompting of their physician resulted in increased colon cancer screening referrals

Table 1 Patients characteristics

Characteristics	IMRC		P value	FMRC		P value
	Control group	Intervention group		Control group	Intervention group
Number of patients	72	76	NS	66	60	NS
Median age (range), yr	54 (51-64)	56 (49-70)		55 (48-68)	54 (47-66)
Sex
Male	32	28		27	27
Female	40	48		39	33
Ethnicity
Non-hispanic white	35	45		30	32
African American	26	24		25	19
Others	9	9		11	9
Health Insurance
Yes	12	19		66	60
No	60	57		0	0
Education
< High school graduate	12	25		7	5
High school graduate	54	41		29	31
College graduate	6	10		30	24
Past medical history
Hypertension	56	60		51	37
Diabetes mellitus	31	26		25	21
Heart disease	4	7		5	5
Liver disease	6	6		5	3
None	12	6		3	9
Alarm symptoms
Yes	20	33		28	26
No	52	43		38	34
Family history of CRC
Yes	11	4		12	7
No	61	72		54	52
Had a colonoscopy
Yes	6	11		9	8
No	66	65		57	52
Knowledge of CRC recommendations
Yes	14	26		36	38
No	58	50		30	22
Know colonoscopy prevents CRC
Yes	35	46		42	42
No	37	30		24	18

CRC: Colorectal cancer; IMRC: Internal medicine resident clinic; FMRC: Family medicine resident clinic.

Table 2 Univariate and multivariate analysis of factors impacting colon cancer screening referral n (%)

	Offered CRC screening(n = 210)	Not offered CRC screening(n = 54)	P value
Age, mean ± SD	55 ± 4	55 ± 4	0.810
White race	116 (55)	26 (48)	0.350
Male sex	83 (38)	31 (54)	0.027
Higher education	57 (26)	13 (23)	0.590
Insured	131 (60)	26 (46)	0.045
Limiting medical problems	23 (11)	5 (8)	0.680
Symptomatic	91 (42)	16 (28)	0.056
Family history	23 (11)	11 (19)	0.076
Knowledge of CRC recommendations	99 (46)	15 (26)	0.0085
Received pamphlet	126 (58)	10 (18)	< 0.0001
Family medicine providers	102 (47)	24 (42)	0.510

CRC: Colorectal cancer.