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Table 3 Performance of referral symptoms and FIT in identifying significant bowel pathology

From: Development and evaluation of a risk assessment tool to improve clinical triage accuracy for colonoscopic investigations

Referral symptom

SBD

n = 114

Positive n (%)

No SBD

n = 314

Positive n (%)

OR

95%CI

P-value

Altered bowel habit

40 (38.5)

115 (36.6)

0.93

0.60-1.46

0.770

Rectal bleeding

40 (38.5)

110 (35)

1.02

0.64-1.57

0.992

Diarrhoea

36 (31.6)

96 (30.5)

1.04

0.66-1.66

0.842

Abdominal pain

13 (11.4)

61 (19.4)

0.56

0.30-1.08

0.080

Iron deficiency anaemia

10 (8.7)

256 (81.5)

0.44

0.21-0.86

0.015

Positive faecal haemoglobin

19 (16.6)

20 (6.4)

2.94

1.51-5.74

0.001