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Annals of Family Medicine 7:56-62 (2009)
© 2009 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.
doi: 10.1370/afm.939
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Screening Colonoscopies by Primary Care Physicians: A Meta-Analysis

Thad Wilkins, MD1, Bruce LeClair, MD, MPH1, Mark Smolkin, MS2, Kathy Davies, MLS3, Andria Thomas, PhD1, Marcia L. Taylor, MD, MSCR4 and Scott Strayer, MD, MPH5

1 Department of Family Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia
2 Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia
3 Department of Education and Information Services, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia
4 Lexington Medical Center, Lexington, South Carolina
5 Department of Family Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia


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  		Figure 1. Search results and study flow diagram.

a Includes patient compliance with screening, capacity to perform colonoscopy, conscious sedation, patient characteristics, learning effect on the number of procedures, colon cancer treatment, genetics of colon cancer.

 

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  		Figure 2. Forest plot of adenoma detection rates.

 

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  		Figure 3. Forest plot of reach-the-cecum rates.

 




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