Research Article
Missed Opportunities for the Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer
Table 3
Common chart-documented symptoms of patients with a missed diagnostic opportunity (ordered by most frequently documented in this group).
| | Symptom | Patients who had a missed diagnostic opportunity | Patients who did not have missed diagnostic opportunity | value | | () | () |
| | Stomach pain | 65 (70.7%) | 80 (50.0%) | | | Anemia | 46 (50.0%) | 51 (31.9%) | | | Constipation | 43 (46.7%) | 52 (32.5%) | | | Blood in stool | 42 (45.7%) | 75 (46.9%) | | | Diarrhea | 40 (43.5%) | 52 (32.5%) | | | Weight loss | 39 (42.4%) | 47 (29.4%) | | | Change in bowels/stool | 37 (40.2%) | 52 (32.5%) | | | Indigestion | 37 (40.2%) | 46 (28.7%) | | | Rectal bleeding | 33 (35.9%) | 52 (32.5%) | | | Nausea | 29 (31.5%) | 34 (21.2%) | | | Vomiting | 22 (23.9%) | 22 (13.8%) | |
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