Calculating Screening Rates for Bowel Cancer

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has released a report "Calculating screening rates for bowel cancer: methodologies for the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program and the National Healthcare Agreement performance indicators explained". Although they are similar concepts, the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program participation monitoring indicator, and the National Healthcare Agreement key performance indicator for bowel cancer screening (PI-12), are different measures. Consequently, they produce different results. This paper describes and explains the differences between the two indicators. (AIHW catalogue number (CAN54)