Missed Opportunities for the Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer

Table 1

Sociodemographic and medical characteristics by missed diagnostic opportunity ().

Variable	Patients who had missed diagnostic opportunity	Patients who did not have missed diagnostic opportunity	value
	(; 36.5%)	(; 63.5%)
Gender
Female	57 (62.0%)	63 (39.4%)
Race
Caucasian	41 (44.6%)	94 (58.8%)
Age
<50	32 (34.8%)	32 (20.0%)
Education
<High school	18 (19.6%)	32 (20.0%)
High school diploma	30 (32.6%)	40 (25.0%)
Some college	33 (35.9%)	50 (31.3%)
Bachelor’s degree and beyond	11 (12.0%)	37 (23.1%)
Declined to answer/do not know	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.6%)
Income
<$30,000	44 (47.8%)	61 (23.2%)
$30 K–$75 K	28 (30.4%)	44 (27.5%)
>$75 K	18 (19.6%)	45 (28.1%)
Declined to answer/do not know	2 (2.3%)	10 (6.3%)
Health insurance
Private	41 (44.6%)	70 (43.8%)
Medicare	28 (30.4%)	43 (26.9%)
Medicaid, state insurance, or uninsured	23 (25.0%)	47 (29.4%)
Stage
1-2	25 (27.2%)	59 (36.9%)
3-4	65 (70.7%)	101 (63.1%)
Unknown	2 (2.2%)	0
Tumor size	5.1 (2.1)	4.8 (2.0)

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