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The referral date should preferably not be before 1 January 2007.
Referral date is defined as the date at which cytology is reported.
Hospital diagnostic delay was defined as the time between referral date and date of CRC diagnosis.
The latter date was assumed to be a good proxy for the referral date.
Private hospitals were, at the time of the survey, not obliged to report the referral date to the NPR.
Both time to first assessment and time to first treatment were calculated using the referral date as time zero.
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Birth and referral dates, sex, height, weight, and location of residence data were abstracted from standardized referral forms received from April, 2005 to April, 2009.
If clients missed their referral dates, the respective CHWs were sent an update showing a "missed visit" on their phone so that they could follow up on their client and reschedule an appointment if needed.
A bespoke Patient Tracker Form was designed to collect information from each participating GP and included: patient contacts; clinic and referral dates; diagnostic tests requested; clinical outcome and additional clinical information.
In supplementary analysis, for each cancer separately, we also present information on the referral interval (date of referral to date of first hospital appointment) and the proportion of patients with interval values 0 14, 0 30 and 0 90 days to enable future comparisons with literature reporting binary proportions of patients exceeding the respective cut-off interval values.
By 1990 it contained eight variables (name, sex, age, catchment area, referral source, date and time of entry to, and departure from the PES, and patient disposition).
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