title: Taking the fear out of colon cancer screening.
abstract: Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., but few patients feel comfortable with the screening procedure and few PCPs recommend it. Find out how one health plan is training midlevel clinicians in a minimally painful screening procedure and eliciting good marks from many patients, who say they would agree to a repeat performance.
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D003955:Diagnostic Tests, Routine / Q000592:standards*; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations; D006801:Humans; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D012812:Sigmoidoscopy / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States