The study, led by Beverly B. Green of the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle, examined CRC screening patients at primary care health centers from 2008 to 2012. The study divided 147 patients into two groups, one which received traditional care and the other with assigned care coordinators.
For those patients with a positive fecal occult blood test or flexible sigmoidoscopy, researchers found nurse care coordinators to be correlated with a 10 percent increase in colonoscopy follow-ups.
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