Conducted to characterize primary care clinicians’ initial rectal bleeding evaluation, the study paves the way for further research and improvement strategies to help understand and manage practice and provider variation.

Study Citation

Weingart SN, Stoffel EM, Chung DC, Sequist TD, Lederman RI, Pelletier SR, and Shields HM. Working up rectal bleeding in adult primary care practices. J Eval Clin Pract. 2016 July 20. doi: 10.1111/jep.12596. [Epub ahead of print]

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