National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: PI 01-Participation rate
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | National Bowel Cancer Screening Program participation rate |
Synonymous names: | NBCSP participation rate |
METEOR identifier: | 694155 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 06/09/2018 |
Description: | The proportion of people invited to screen through the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) in a 24-month period who returned a completed screening test within the defined 24-month period or the following 6 months. |
Rationale: | The participation rate is a key indicator that measures the proportion of those invited who participate in the program. Without participation, the NBCSP cannot achieve early detection. The program should therefore monitor participation to ensure acceptability, equity and uptake with the aim that reductions in incidence, morbidity and mortality can be achieved. Participation is the number of people screened, not the number of tests completed and is divided by the number of people invited. The indicator reporting period is 24 months due to the rescreening interval and results in a ‘rolling’ rate, i.e. a particular year would be included in two annual reports. This is consistent with other cancer screening program reporting. National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) guidelines recommend a two-yearly screening interval for colorectal cancer screening in Australia (ACN 2017), and a rollout for this is currently underway. Accordingly, this participation indicator counts participation activity over a 24-month period and uses a 6-month follow-up period to ensure those invited have had time to respond. Although it would be ideal to adjust for people who do not screen because they participate in other forms of screening or surveillance, this is not currently possible due to restrictions in the data available. However, people who opt off or suspend from the Program without completing the test will not be counted. |
Indicator set: | National Bowel Cancer Screening Program performance indicators 2019– Health!, Standard 06/09/2018 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
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Numerator: | The number of people invited to screen through the NBCSP in a 24-month period who returned a completed screening test within the defined 24-month period or the following 6 months. |
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Denominator: | The number of people invited in a defined 24-month period, excluding those who either opted off or suspended without completing a screening test. People who opt off or suspend are excluded from the denominator as they may be already participating in other forms of screening or surveillance due to non-asymptomatic reasons. Therefore, the denominator is closer to a true population screening scenario. |
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Disaggregation: | Items will be presented by sex and age group, by:
Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | NN.N |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents: | ACN (Australian Cancer Network Colorectal Cancer Guidelines Revision Committees) 2017. Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention, early detection and management of colorectal cancer (CRC) 3rd edn. Sydney: The Cancer Council Australia and Australian Cancer Network. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Bowel Cancer Screening Program: PI 01-Participation rate Health!, Superseded 06/09/2018 |