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Volume
8: No. 5, September 2011
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Physician Visits and Colorectal Cancer Testing Among Medicare Enrollees in North Carolina and South Carolina, 2005
| Type of Physician Seena |
Medicare Patients With Colorectal Cancer Test, %
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| Primary care, nonprimary care, and mixed specialty visits |
50.6 |
| Primary care and nonprimary care visits |
43.9 |
| Mixed specialty and nonprimary care visits |
38.5 |
| Primary care and mixed specialty visits |
37.5 |
| Primary care visits only |
28.7 |
| Mixed-specialty visits only |
25.0 |
| Nonprimary care visits only |
23.9 |
Figure 1. Percentage of fee-for-service Medicare enrollees current with
colorectal cancer testing, by physician type, seen by any physician, North Carolina and South Carolina, 2005.
a Physician categories: 1) primary care: internal medicine, family medicine, general practice, preventive medicine, geriatric medicine, obstetrician/gynecologists,
nurse practitioners, and physician assistants; 2) mixed specialty: physicians with more than 1 specialty listed, 1 of which was a primary care specialty; 3) nonprimary care: physicians with only nonprimary care specialties.
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| Type of Primary Physician Seen |
Medicare Patients With Colorectal
Cancer Test, %
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| Obstetrics and gynecology |
46.6 |
| Other (multiple specialties seen) |
43.5 |
| Internal medicine, preventive medicine, geriatrics |
40.0 |
| Physician assistant or nurse practitioner |
29.9 |
| Family and general practice |
29.1 |
Figure 2. Percentage of fee-for-service North Carolina and South Carolina Medicare enrollees
who were seen by primary care physicians in 2005 and were current with
colorectal cancer testing, by primary care specialty.
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