Stool occult blood screening for XXXX .

@entity1 @entity5 @entity14
During a five-year prospective study of @entity1 compliance with the Hemoccult slide test as a screen for @entity14 , 772 adults above 40 years of age received 1,693 sets of Hemoccult slides. Overall compliance with returning the slides was 75 percent. Compliance remained high with repeat testing. Sixty percent of @entity1 returned all sets of slides. Thirty percent of @entity1 who did not return the first two sets of slide ultimately changed their behavior and returned subsequent slides. Two to five minutes of provider time were required for instruction and distribution of the first set of slides. Distribution of subsequent sets of slides required less than one minute of provider time. Three @entity5 were detected during the study period. Two of these @entity5 were diagnosed only by colonoscopy or subsequent surgery and were missed by rigid sigmoidoscopy and barium enema. Stool occult blood screening for @entity14 is accepted by @entity1 and requires little physician time in the private practice, fee-for-service setting.
