Stephen Morris|Gianluca Baio|E. Dwight Kendall|Christian von Wagner|Jane Wardle|Wendy Atkin|Stephen P Halloran|Graham Handley|Richard F. Logan|Austin Obichere|Sandra Rainbow|Stephen C. Smith|Julia Snowball|Rosalind Raine
Socioeconomic variation in uptake of colonoscopy following a positive faecal occult blood test result: a retrospective analysis of the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme
University College London|University College London|University College London|University College London|University College London|Imperial College London|Royal Surrey County Hospital|Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust|Queen Elizabeth Hospital|Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust|Queen's Medical Centre|University College Hospital|University College London|St Mark's Hospital|Hospital of St. Cross|Royal Surrey County Hospital|University College London
bowel cancer serious health burden early diagnosis improves survival bowel cancer screening programme bcsp england screens faecal occult blood test fobt followed colonoscopy individuals positive test result socioeconomic inequalities demonstrated fobt uptake known whether persist next stage screening pathway aim study assess association colonoscopy uptake area socioeconomic deprivation controlling individual age sex area ethnic diversity population density poor selfassessed health regionlogistic regression analysis colonoscopy uptake using bcsp data england 2006 2009 24 180 adults aged 60 69 yearsoverall colonoscopy uptake 884 statistically significant variation uptake found quintiles area deprivation ranging 864 895 well age sex groups 879891 quintiles poor selfassessed health 875895 nonwhite ethnicity 846906 population density 879893 geographical regions 86490colonoscopy uptake high variation uptake socioeconomic deprivation small variation subgroups age sex poor selfassessed health ethnic diversity population density region