TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hoffmeister, Michael
AU  - Holleczek, Bernd
AU  - Stock, Christian
AU  - Zwink, Nadine
AU  - Stolz, Thomas
AU  - Stegmaier, Christa
AU  - Brenner, Hermann
TI  - Utilization and determinants of follow-up colonoscopies within 6 years after screening colonoscopy: Prospective cohort study.
JO  - International journal of cancer
VL  - 144
IS  - 2
SN  - 0020-7136
CY  - Bognor Regis
PB  - Wiley-Liss
M1  - DKFZ-2018-02279
SP  - 402 - 410
PY  - 2019
AB  - Previous studies have reported that repeat colonoscopies were often not conducted in the recommended time interval after screening colonoscopy. We prospectively followed participants of screening colonoscopy from Germany for 6 years to investigate utilization and determinants of repeat colonoscopies. In a longitudinal study on the effectiveness of screening colonoscopy in the state of Saarland (Germany), participants who had a screening colonoscopy between 2005 and 2007 were contacted by mail 6 years after screening and requested to fill in a standardized questionnaire on utilization of repeat colonoscopies. For all colonoscopies reported, colonoscopy and histology reports were requested from the physician(s). Of 6,407 screening participants, 2,212 (35
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:30203838
DO  - DOI:10.1002/ijc.31862
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/142049
ER  -