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The Gerontologist, Vol 33, Issue 4 491-496, Copyright © 1993 by The Gerontological Society of America

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Using elderly educators to increase colorectal cancer screening

SP Weinrich, MC Weinrich, MF Stromborg, MD Boyd and HL Weiss
College of Nursing, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

This article reports on the elderly educator method, a practical and economical intervention that was used for increasing the rate of return of fecal occult blood sampling in colorectal screening among 171 socioeconomically disadvantaged older persons. Two methods that used elderly educators had an overall response rate of more than 60%. Logistic regression shows a statistically significant difference between two methods that used elderly educators and two methods that did not.


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