Research Article
Screening and Colonoscopy Quality Measures: Ethnic Disparities and Impact on Patients’ Outcome
Table 1
Baseline characteristics of both groups.
| | Ethnic group | Arabs; n = 8191 | Jews; n = 43116 | value |
| | Epidemiological data | | Age (average SD) | 55.49 ± 15.03 | 60.10 ± 14.42 | < 0.0001 | | Gender (male) | 4424 (54%) | 21659 (50.2%) | < 0.0001 |
| | Procedures’ indications | | Abdominal pain diarrhea | 2423 (29.6%) | 10661 (24.7%) | < 0.0001 | | Iron deficiency anemia | 1475 (18.0%) | 7675 (17.8%) | = 0.07 | | Positive FOBT | 632 (7.7%) | 3277 (7.6%) | = 0.12 | | Rectal bleeding | 1157 (14.1%) | 6333 (14.7%) | = 0.19 | | Screening | 404 (5%) | 5638 (13.1%) | < 0.0001 | | Constipation | 956 (11.7%) | 4557 (10.6%) | = 0.003 | | Suspicious imaging finding | 395 (4.8%) | 1966 (4.6%) | = 0.066 | | Weight loss | 274 (3.3%) | 1259 (2.9%) | = 0.039 |
| | Endoscopic findings | | Cecal intubation rate | 6681 (83.3%) | 36987 (89.0%) | < 0.0001 | | Terminal ileum intubation | 288 (3.5%) | 1396 (3.2%) | = 0.07 | | Bowel preparation (poor) | 1627 (19.9%) | 5179 (12%) | < 0.0001 | | Polyp detection rate (overall) | 1365 (16.7%) | 9688 (22.5%) | < 0.0001 | | CRC detection rate (overall) | 235 (2.9%) | 1159 (2.6%) | = 0.09 |
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