Methods
Colorectal Cancer
COLORECTAL CANCER
Building on an ongoing academic/community partnership and research study, we implemented an expansion of a mailed FIT intervention to include the newly eligible age group of 45–49-year-old patients at a single FQHC clinic site in North Carolina. The intervention tested in the parent study, Scaling Colorectal Cancer Screening Through Outreach, Referral, and Engagement (SCORE), included centralized mailed FIT outreach and, for those with abnormal FIT results, patient navigation to follow-up colonoscopy; the parent study has been previously described [The SCORE parent study and sub-study were conducted as part of the NCI-funded Accelerating Colorectal Cancer Screening and Follow-up through Implementation Science (ACCSIS) Consortium. The overall aim of the ACCSIS Consortium is to conduct multi-site, coordinated, transdisciplinary research to evaluate and improve CRC screening processes using implementation science. The sub-study was registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04406714) and approved by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institutional Review Board.