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Table 2 Proportions of the eligible populations with colonoscopy/FOBT, mammography or PSA testing in 2014, 2016, and 2018, and significance tests of change of these proportions, pairwise between years

From: Temporal trends and regional disparities in cancer screening utilization: an observational Swiss claims-based study

 

2014

2016

2018

Change in proportion 20,142,016

pa

Change in proportion 2016–2018

pa

Change in proportion 2014–2018

pa

colonoscopy/ FOBTb

8.3%

8.9%

9.2%

0.7%

< 0.001

0.2%

0.003

0.9%

< 0.001

mammography

20.9%

21.2%

20.4%

0.3%

0.017

−0.8%

< 0.001

−0.5%

< 0.001

PSA testingc

30.5%

31.1%

31.8%

0.5%

0.001

0.7%

< 0.001

1.2%

< 0.001

  1. a using Chi-squared tests
  2. b FOBT Fecal occult blood testing
  3. c PSA Prostate-specific antigen