Maryam R Hussain, Faisal S Ali, Scott A Larson, Soham Al Snih
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Abstract
The landscape for the screening of colorectal cancer (CRC) has witnessed multiple triumphs over the past decades from policy-level interventions. In the United States (US), the most prominent intervention of this nature is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), enacted more than a decade ago. Since its enactment, the ACA has seen multiple legal challenges, and its impact on CRC screening has been relatively well studied. However, a consolidated, concise analysis of the data on this subject is lacking. Herein, we evaluate the impact of the ACA on CRC screening through the lens of a policy analysis, highlighting its strengths and shortcomings, and suggest policy-level interventions to address these shortcomings and improve CRC screening adoption.
在过去的几十年里，从政策层面的干预措施来看，结直肠癌筛查的前景已经取得了多次成功。在美国，最突出的此类干预是十多年前颁布的《患者保护和平价医疗法案》（Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act， ACA）。自ACA颁布以来，它面临着多重法律挑战，其对CRC筛查的影响也得到了相对较好的研究。但是，缺乏关于这一问题的综合、简明的数据分析。在此，我们通过政策分析来评估ACA对结直肠癌筛查的影响，突出其优势和不足，并建议政策层面的干预措施来解决这些不足，提高结直肠癌筛查的采用。
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Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal on oncology. It publishes reviews, regular research papers and short communications. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced.
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