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OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. — Fifty-two years after the Olympic flame was first ignited in the Tahoe region, California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki announced on Thursday the formation of the Lake Tahoe Winter Games Exploratory Committee.
The committee, according to a press release, is a new joint California/Nevada initiative, building on existing efforts dedicated to developing an Olympic bid for Reno/Tahoe/Sacramento for the 2022 Winter Games.
The committee has been created by the leadership of the Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition and the California Winter Games Committee — who recently were joined by the Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee.
"The timing is right for Californians and Nevadans to come together and seriously explore bringing the Winter Olympic Games to the Tahoe region," Krolicki said in a statement. "Our new committee is the evolution of years of work by many people, and if the United States Olympic Committee decides to bid on the 2022 Winter Games, we will be ready to showcase the Tahoe region's scenic majesty and winter games capabilities."
According to the press release, the Lake Tahoe Winter Games Exploratory Committee will work to create a group of business, civic and political leaders tasked with exploring the benefits and impacts of hosting the Olympic Games in the Lake Tahoe Region.
The group's leadership — to include a robust environmental team — will be announced in coming weeks.
"As someone who has worked on bids for major sporting events like the Olympic Games and the America's Cup, I know how important it will be for us to have a galvanized regional effort," Newsom said in a statement. "We will only succeed if leaders on both sides of the state line stand as one."
Andy Wirth, president and CEO of Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows ski resorts, is the committee's interim chair, according to the press release.
According to previous reports, Krolicki said if the region wins the bid, only portions of the events would happen at Lake Tahoe, with others taking place in Reno and Sacramento.
A bid for the Olympics could cost around $5 million.
Denver, Salt Lake City, Lake Placid, N.Y., and Bozeman, Mont., have all expressed interest in hosting the 2022 event.
If the USOC chooses to do so, it would make a bid for the 2022 Winter Games in 2013. The host city will be awarded in 2015.


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Anne Arundel County property owners are getting a break on a new stormwater fee.
The County Council voted Monday to limit commercial property owners' fees at 25 percent of their property tax bill and phase in homeowners' fees.
The Capital of Annapolis reported that property owners with bills of $500 or more will pay 60 percent in 2014, 80 percent in 2015 and 100 percent in 2016.
The changes respond to protests to a bill passed over the county executive's veto last month.
A General Assembly bill passed last year directs 10 jurisdictions, including Anne Arundel County, to establish the fee to pay for Chesapeake Bay watershed cleanup by July 1 or face fines.
The council will consider four more bills that would cut the fees further.

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The couple worked as concessionaire at Spooner Lake, paying a fee to the state parks department to run the ski center. McMullen operated the front counter, handling rentals and fees while Jones operated the snow cats building and grooming trails.David Morrow, administrator of the parks department, said the future of the center is unclear."We actually don't know," he said. "There's some questions we need to answer before we reach a decision about what we're going to do."Morrow said the department will solicit feedback from the community to determine whether users would like to see a continuation of the groomed ski trails or more of an open area for a variety of recreation activities during the winter."We want to take a pretty close look at what's going on," he said.Carson City resident Anne Macquarie said she would be disappointed to see it go. "It's been such a fixture in my life," she said. "I practically raised my kids there."She said she has been skiing there since she moved to Carson City 23 years ago, and both of her children learned to ski there before learning downhill."It was a real community," she said. "Whenever I went up there, I would always see somebody I knew."
Jones said he hates to let people down, but with their daughter, Caitlin, graduating from Carson High School this year, it was the right time to make the transition."It's like an extended family," he said. "We feel bad, like we're walking out on them."Skier Erick Studenicka said the feeling was mutual. "As Carson City skiers, we feel bad we somehow didn't support him enough," Studenicka said. "It's like seeing a good friend move away."He said Carson City cross country skiers will likely have to travel to North Tahoe if the center closes. And, he said, skiers will be losing an advocate in the area.Studenicka, who competes in biathlon for the Nevada National Guard, said Jones, who competed in the sport during the Olympic trials in the 1986 Sarajevo games, was always supportive. "He let us carry our rifles on our back to train," Studenicka said. "A lot of areas are not as lenient."In addition to skiing in the Olympic trials, Jones is also a two-time mountain bike world champion and a member of the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. Morrow said the department would be hard-pressed to find someone with Jones' expertise to take over the center.
Jones is hoping there will be another solution. He's working with avid skiers to form a club that would volunteer to clear the parking lot — an expense that generally takes up about 35 percent of the ski center's profits — and groom the trails. The concessionaire would then be left to run the shop only. Jones said he would be willing to teach them how to groom, and would even do the job a couple of times a week.He said the ski club could eventually evolve into a nonprofit group responsible for the upkeep of the trails, but exempt from paying park fees."I would hate to see this place shut down," he said. "I want to be really involved in making it go."He also wants to see the cabins he helped build about 14 years ago from trees cut in the forest there to remain available to rent.And, he said, he wants to stay in touch with the customers he's come to consider as friends over the years as they make the shift to the new business. "We're really kind of excited about it," he said. "We just hope our customers here will come see us and buy a cup of coffee every once in a while."


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FREMONT - With his team trailing Mohawk by a couple touchdowns at the half, Fremont St. Joseph coach T.J. Buckley's challenge could have simply been, "Just do what they did."
In truth, the discussion was a little more technical than that, but in the final analysis, the Crimson Streaks did to the Warriors what the Warriors had done to them. And because the Streaks did it just a little bit better, they came away with a 28-18 win Friday night at Don Paul Stadium.
"We weren't staying low, we weren't fighting that first half," Buckley said after his club rallied for its seventh win against three defeats. "We were standing up and they were getting into our linebackers."
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That's football talk for they were getting manhandled.
The Warriors, playing for the eighth spot in Region 24 of the Division VII playoffs next week, were dominant while building an 18-7 first-half lead.
Mohawk piled up 14 first downs over the first two quarters and its 244 rushing yards were more than triple the total offense produced by the Streaks in the first half. Throw in a couple St. Joe turnovers and the Warriors were seemingly on their way.
But in the second half, the Streaks held Mohawk to 10 yards in total offense and no first downs in four possessions.
Meanwhile, St. Joe's Marcus Kerr ran for 165 second-half yards and two touchdowns to spark the big rally.
Kerr's 1-yard smash finished a seven-play, 66-yard scoring drive to start the second half. After a three-and-out for Mohawk, Kerr runs of 13 and 16 yards were the start and finish to a 71-yard touchdown march that put the Streaks up 21-18 with 3:11 still to play in the third period.
"We knew we could move the ball," Buckley said. "We did move it that first drive and then we turned it over twice. You turn it over twice and you get a little down on yourself.
"We knew we had the ball (to start) the second half and we just needed to come out and dominate the line of scrimmage and do what we do running the football," he said.
The Streaks failed on their next possession but put the game away with 13-play, 56-yard trek that consumed nearly seven minutes. When Bennett Weickert powered in from the 1, it gave St. Joe its 10-point lead with just 2:16 to play.
"In the second half, we couldn't stop them and we never seemed to get any rhythm back for ourselves," Warrior coach Erik Baker said. "We never could get ahead of the chains.
"I feel awful for the kids," he said. "We worked awfully hard to put ourselves in position where Week 10 would mean something and halfway through, we were there. But they did a great job in the second half of controlling the ball and got the win."
The first half went mostly according to script, except for one bit of good fortune for the Streaks.
Gunnar Johnson, the runaway leader for the final Midland Athletic League rushing championship coming in, pushed his final total over 1,600 yards by gaining 166 yards on 27 carries Friday.
Running mates Eric Maskey (nine carries, 40 yards) and Logan Stillberger (six carries, 50 yards) added plenty behind a big effort up front.
The Warriors, who averaged 6.8 yards on 15 first-down snaps in the first half, powered 80 yards on 12 plays to open the game with Johnson's 22-yard burst being the capper with six minutes left. But the run for the extras failed.
The Streaks averted disaster and went ahead 7-6 with 1:16 left in the first period. On first down from the 6, Kerr carried to the 2 and then fumbled the ball into the end zone. Teammate Hunter Harrison covered it for the touchdown and Corey Durbin's kick put the hosts ahead.
Mohawk responded with another 80-yard scoring drive with Johnson getting the touchdown on a 25-yard sprint.
Stillberger then recovered a fumbled pitch at the Streak 35. He then carried 31 yards before Maskey got the final 4 yards for the 18-7 advantage.
Mohawk twice advanced inside the Streak 25 in the first half, one of those coming when Mitchell Parker intercepted a pass, but the Warriors couldn't score again.
The Streaks will likely host Arlington in next week's opening round of the playoffs.
"I just know we're home and that's a good place to be to start," Buckley said. "All you need is a seat at the table and we've got a seat at the table, so we'll go from there."
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DOUBLES: 1,Goodin-Twigg, B, def. Duvall-Kryut, 10-4; 2, Smith-Clark, TM, def. Ward-Karns, 8-4.
Huskies blank 'Cats
HUNTINGDON- Huntingdon was blanked by Mifflin County, 7-0, in high school tennis.
The Bearcats fell to 2-2.
SINGLES: 1, Suthar, MC, def. Santos, 6-0, 6-0; 2, Kohler, MC, def. Piensational, 6-0, 6-2; 3, Salter, MC, def. Perow, 6-4, 6-3; 4, Debenedetto, MC, def. Forsha, 6-0, 6-0; 5, Morgan, MC, def. Hoover, 6-0, 6-0.
DOUBLES: 1, Brought-Donelson, MC, def. Port-Scialabba, 10-2; 2, Manino-Debenedetto, MC, def. Reitman-Thurston-Griswald, 10-1
Records: Huntingdon (2-2). Mifflin County (2-1)
Dragons fall in extras
MARTINSBURG-Cole Kreider scored the only run for Central as the Scarlet Dragons fell to Mifflin County, 2-1, in eight innings in high school baseball.
Zach Croft struck out eight for Central, which dropped to 2-2.
MIFFLIN COUNTY (2): North cf 402, Moist p-rf 402, Walker ss 311, T. Wilson 1b 300, Rofesky c 311, Long rf 100, Wagner p 201, C. Wilson lf 300, Peachey 3b 401, Pupo 2b 301. Totals - 32-2-9.
Central (1): Nagley lf 401, Cunningham ss 302, Moore cf 400, Hamm c 400, Stern 2b 302, Kreider 3b 310, Croft p 201, Lewis rf 100, Ebersole 1b 401, Mock dh 201, Slagenweit rf-p 000. Totals -30-1-8.
Mifflin County000 100 01-2 9 1
Central000 100 00-1 8 0
E-Walker. 2B-Walker, Nagley. HR -Rofesky. RBI-Rofesky, Wagner. WP-Wagner. LP-Croft. SO-Croft 4, Wagner 6. BB-Moist 5, Croft 3.
Records: Mifflin County (3-0); Central (2-2)
Carroll juniors win
EBENSBURG - Behind 16 assists from Jess Shaffer, Bishop Carroll beat Hollidaysburg, 25-18, 25-13, in junior high girls volleyball.
Hannah Cotchen added eight service point, and Ellie Yahner record 12 kills for the undefeated Lady Huskies (3-0).
Hannah Civils had six service points for Hollidaysburg, which fell to 0-3.
JV: Bishop Carroll 25-22, 25-7
B-A juniors roll
ROARING SPRING - Bellwood-Antis beat Spring Cove, 25-18, 25-15 in junior high girls volleyball action on Thursday.
JV: Spring Cove, 13-25, 25-16, 15-9
Tom Drennon was incorrectly identified as an assistant boys basketball coach at Westmont Hilltop High School in Thursday's Mirror. Drennon has no role with the team.


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Rivera Shines As Softball Tops Alabama A&M 12-0
AUBURN, Ala. - - Freshman pitcher Jocelyn Rivera (Brooklyn, Ohio/Brooklyn) turned in a dominating effort in the circle to guide the Ball State softball team to a 12-0 (5 inn.) win over Alabama A&M Friday afternoon in the team's opening game of the War Eagle Classic hosted by Auburn.
The Cardinals, who improve to 13-7 with the win, return to action later this afternoon with a scheduled 4:10 pm ET/ 3:10 pm CT first pitch versus Radford.
In picking up her first career complete game victory, Rivera chalked up a career-high seven strikeouts and did not issue a walk. Rivera limited the Lady Bulldogs (8-15) to just five hits over 5.0 innings of work to improve to 2-1 on the year.
The Ball State offense tallied 13 total hits in the game, led by the 3-for-4 effort from senior third baseman Audrey Bickel (Munster, Ind./Andrean). Bickel blasted her third home run of the season in the first inning, a three-run shot to center field, while adding a double in the fifth. She also finished the contest with a game-high three RBI.
Senior first baseman Taylor Rager (Fishers, Ind./Hamilton Southeastern) also had a strong showing in the batter's box, going 3-for-3 with a double and home run of her own, a solo shot in the fourth inning. Rager also drew a walk and score two runs.
Sophomore second baseman Emily Dabkowski (Plainfield, Ind./South Putnam) also belted a solo blast in the fourth inning, while starting inning-ending, rally-killing double plays on defense in the bottom of the third and fourth innings.
The Cardinals came out of the gates strong in the top of the first, racking up seven runs on three hits to take a commanding 7-0 edge. Junior right fielder Loren Cihlar (St. Charles, Ill./St. Charles North) opened the game with a walk and proceeded to steal second and third. After a walk to Dabkowski, a wild pitch brought home Cihlar and helped Dabkowski advance to third.
Ball State's second run crossed the plate on an Alabama A&M error on a fly from senior left fielder Jennifer Gilbert (McKinney, Texas/McKinney). Rager followed with a walk, setting up a three-run blast from Bickel.
After a Lady Bulldog's pitching change, the hosts on the scoreboard recorded the first out of the inning. However, a walk to freshman catcher Shelbie Scamihorn (Terra Haute, Ind./South Vigo) and a double from sophomore shortstop Selena Reyna (Houston, Texas/South Houston) put runners at second and third.
Sophomore center fielder Briana Evans (Tulsa, Okla./Union) drove in BSU's sixth run of the inning with an infield single to third, while a groundout from Cihlar drove in the seventh and final run of the frame.
After being held off the scoreboard in the second and third innings, the Cardinals struck for three more runs in the top of the fourth, extending their lead to 10-0. Dabkowski led off the frame with a first-pitch solo blast, while Rager followed two batters later with a solo home run of her own.
An infield single from Bickel followed, while a pinch hit double from freshman Hayley Cruthers (Swartz Creek, Mich./Swartz Creek) put runners at second and third. In her first collegiate at bat, freshman pinch hitter Taylor Cooley (Chelsea, Mich./Chelsea) recorded her first career RBI with a groundout to shortstop to cap the scoring in the inning and give BSU a 10-0 edge.
Evans opened the fifth inning with a stand-up triple to left field and came around for score on a pinch hit single from junior Hanne Stuedemann (Mattawan, Mich./Mattawan). With Stuedemann standing on third after a fielder's choice and double play, Rager sliced a RBI single to right field giving Ball State a 12-0 lead.


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Author Affiliations: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle (Dr Inadomi); GI Health Outcomes, Policy and Economics (HOPE) Research Program, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (Drs Inadomi, Somsouk, and El-Nachef and Mss Thomas, Lin, Muñoz, and Lau); Division of Gastroenterology, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco (Drs Inadomi, Somsouk, and El-Nachef and Mss Thomas, Lin, Muñoz, and Lau); Department of Veteran Affairs Ann Arbor Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Ann Arbor, Michigan (Drs Vijan, Fagerlin, and Hayward); and Department of Medicine (Drs Vijan, Fagerlin, and Hayward) and School of Public Health (Dr Janz), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Background Despite evidence that several colorectal cancer (CRC) screening strategies can reduce CRC mortality, screening rates remain low. This study aimed to determine whether the approach by which screening is recommended influences adherence.
Methods We used a cluster randomization design with clinic time block as the unit of randomization. Persons at average risk for development of CRC in a racially/ethnically diverse urban setting were randomized to receive recommendation for screening by fecal occult blood testing (FOBT), colonoscopy, or their choice of FOBT or colonoscopy. The primary outcome was completion of CRC screening within 12 months after enrollment, defined as performance of colonoscopy, or 3 FOBT cards plus colonoscopy for any positive FOBT result. Secondary analyses evaluated sociodemographic factors associated with completion of screening.
Results A total of 997 participants were enrolled; 58% completed the CRC screening strategy they were assigned or chose. However, participants who were recommended colonoscopy completed screening at a significantly lower rate (38%) than participants who were recommended FOBT (67%) (P < .001) or given a choice between FOBT or colonoscopy (69%) (P < .001). Latinos and Asians (primarily Chinese) completed screening more often than African Americans. Moreover, nonwhite participants adhered more often to FOBT, while white participants adhered more often to colonoscopy.
Conclusions The common practice of universally recommending colonoscopy may reduce adherence to CRC screening, especially among racial/ethnic minorities. Significant variation in overall and strategy-specific adherence exists between racial/ethnic groups; however, this may be a proxy for health beliefs and/or language. These results suggest that patient preferences should be considered when making CRC screening recommendations.
Trial Registration clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00705731
Inadomi et al determine whether the approach by which colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is recommended to patients influences adherence. Persons were randomized to receive recommendation for screening by fecal occult blood testing (FOBT), colonoscopy, or their choice of FOBT or colonoscopy. In an Invited Commentary, Levin discusses the value of providing options to increase screening adherence.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a nearly ideal disease for screening. It is a prevalent condition that can be identified and definitively treated during an asymptomatic phase, thereby preventing the morbidity and mortality associated with the unscreened clinical course of the disease.1Quiz Ref IDPrevious studies have illustrated the benefit of screening using fecal occult blood testing (FOBT),2- 6 flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS),7- 9 and colonoscopy10- 12 to decrease the incidence and/or mortality from CRC. Some national guidelines leave the choice of screening test to the clinician and patient,13- 15 while others recommend colonoscopy as the preferred screening test.16 However, adherence to CRC screening is suboptimal, especially among racial/ethnic minorities.17,18
Quiz Ref IDEvidence suggests that the adherence rate to CRC screening is generally more important than which strategy is used.19 It is unknown, however, whether giving patients a choice of screening modalities improves or reduces adherence. Giving choices through shared decision making can improve adherence by increasing patient engagement and allowing for individual patient preferences.20,21 In contrast, evidence also illustrates that providing options of similar value and characteristics can sometimes have a negative impact on adherence due to people defaulting to inertia, presumably because of confusion or indecision between choices.22- 24 A small pilot study supported the latter hypothesis, in which patients allowed to choose among colonoscopy, FS, and FOBT were less likely to adhere to CRC screening than those recommended a single strategy.25
No US clinical trial has compared patient adherence to competing CRC screening strategies. Using a cluster randomization design, we examined the effects of recommending (1) FOBT, (2) colonoscopy, or (3) giving patients the choice of FOBT or colonoscopy on completion of CRC screening in persons at average risk for CRC. Our hypothesis was that patients given a choice of screening strategies would have a lower rate of adherence than patients recommended a single strategy. Given reports of lower adherence in racial/ethnic minorities, we also aimed to compare how the approach to screening affected completion in 4 racial/ethnic groups: African Americans, Hispanics, whites, and Asians (the latter being predominantly Chinese).
This study was conducted in the San Francisco Community Health Network (CHN), the public health care system of the City and County of San Francisco, California. Participants were aged between 50 and 79 years and at average risk for development of CRC. To capture the majority of patients served by the CHN, research materials were produced in, and research staff were fluent in, English, Spanish, Cantonese, and Mandarin. Exclusion criteria included (1) a family history of CRC in a first-degree relative; (2) a personal history of colonic adenomatous polyps, CRC, or inflammatory bowel disease, symptoms for which colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy would otherwise be performed (hematochezia, new-onset diarrhea, constipation or abdominal pain); or (3) compliant with CRC screening (FOBT within preceding 12 months, sigmoidoscopy or barium enema within 5 years, or colonoscopy within 10 years). In addition, patients with comorbid illness precluding endoscopic evaluation (myocardial infarction within 6 months, unstable angina. or congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease requiring home oxygen) were excluded, as were patients with other diseases that limited their life expectancy to less than 10 years, as assessed by their primary health care provider (PCP).
Eligible patients were identified by screening the patient panels of participating PCPs using the computerized clinical databases of the CHN. Potential participants were verified to be candidates for CRC screening by their PCP.
Research assistants approached patients while they were waiting to be seen by their PCP. Participants provided written consent allowing completion of a study survey and follow-up through medical record review and contact with study personnel 12 months after enrollment.
In randomly allocated 3-month blocks, PCPs in each clinic were assigned to provide their patients an initial recommendation for CRC screening by (1) FOBT, (2) colonoscopy, or (3) a choice of FOBT or colonoscopy (Choice arm). The sequence of 3-month blocks was randomly assigned by blinded draw of sequentially numbered containers. Because enrollment took place over an 18-month period, each clinic was assigned each strategy twice. To ensure PCPs did not adjust scheduling of patients to allow discussion of specific strategies, PCPs were blinded to the strategy until the first day that a block change occurred.
The PCP was responsible for counseling eligible patients about CRC screening. During time blocks in which a single strategy was assigned, PCPs recommended only this strategy and did not offer the alternative strategy to patients at the initial visit. Fecal occult blood testing cards were not available for distribution during the time in which colonoscopy was being recommended, and colonoscopy appointments for screening were not available during periods in which FOBT was being recommended. Additional measures to ensure PCPs recommended the correct strategy included changing written material regarding CRC screening in the waiting and examination rooms to depict only the strategy being offered, and changing the verbal scripts used by the PCPs when discussing CRC screening with participants. Since FOBT was the sole means of CRC screening in the CHN outside the study setting, patients assigned FOBT did not have the opportunity to undergo colonoscopy; however, patients assigned to the colonoscopy arm had the opportunity to receive FOBT at subsequent PCP visits if they continued to refuse colonoscopy.
Primary health care providers discussed both FOBT and colonoscopy screening with their patients assigned to the Choice arm. The PCPs were instructed to refrain from recommending a particular CRC screening strategy and allow participants to choose which strategy they wished to pursue. To facilitate choice, the principal investigator (J.M.I) held training sessions prior to study initiation and met with PCPs regularly during the study to emphasize the US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations that did not describe a preferred strategy for CRC screening.14
For participants assigned or who chose FOBT, testing kits were given to the patient for home administration with instructions in their preferred language, which was documented to be English, Spanish, Cantonese, or Mandarin. The cards were mailed back to research staff to ensure accurate assessment of adherence prior to submission to the clinical laboratory for standard processing. For colonoscopy, standard information about the procedure and directions for the bowel preparation were delivered to the participants in their preferred language. No additional reminders to promote screening were provided in this study.
The presence of occult blood on any of the 3 FOBT samples prompted a recommendation for colonoscopy. The participant's PCP was notified about the positive test result, and the PCP contacted the participant to schedule a colonoscopy.
This study focused on the patient factors associated with adherence to CRC screening tests; therefore, we attempted to reduce health care system barriers to screening. All recommendations and instructions (verbal and written) were provided to participants in their preferred language. Participants agreeing to undergo colonoscopy were directly scheduled for the procedure, thus bypassing a preprocedure gastroenterology visit. Procedural wait times have been associated with reduced adherence; thus, all colonoscopies were scheduled to occur within 2 weeks of enrollment. If necessary, participants were provided postprocedure rides to their residence. Finally, the health care initiative passed by the residents of San Francisco (Healthy San Francisco) ensured colonoscopy was available to all patients regardless of insurance status or ability to pay for this service.
The primary outcome of the study was completion of a CRC screening strategy within 12 months of enrollment in the study defined as the following:
FOBT: Receipt of 3 test cards containing stool specimens. A positive FOBT test result (presence of occult blood on any test card) required documented performance of a colonoscopy in order for the strategy to be completed.
Colonoscopy: Documented performance of colonoscopy.
Completion was prospectively assessed through count of FOBT kits mailed back to the research office and direct observation of participants completing colonoscopy. If there was no documentation of FOBT or colonoscopy the participant was contacted 12 months after enrollment to verify noncompletion. If the participant stated that CRC screening was completed outside of the study site, the research assistant contacted the institution to verify procedure performance.
Research assistants recorded information solicited from participants including age, sex, race/ethnicity, language preference (English, Spanish, Cantonese or Mandarin), level of education, income, employment status, and type of insurance.
The primary outcome was comparison of the proportion of participants who completed the CRC screening strategy they were assigned (FOBT or colonoscopy arms) or chose (Choice arm). In addition, the proportions completing FOBT and colonoscopy strategies were calculated separately in the Choice arm. Racial/ethnic differences in overall completion and in completion of specific screening strategies were examined. Completion rates were compared using the χ2 test and adjusted for multiple comparisons using a level of statistical significance of .01. In addition, all analyses adjusted for potential within-PCP clustering using a generalized linear mixed-effect model with logit link.
Secondary outcomes included comparison of the proportion of participants in each arm who completed any CRC screening strategy regardless whether this was the strategy the participant was assigned or originally chose. In addition, sociodemographic data were used as independent variables to assess the impact of each on completion of CRC screening. Predictor variables significantly associated in crude analyses with completion status (P < .05) were entered into a logistic model to identify independent variables associated with noncompletion of CRC screening. Interactions between study arm and various predictors, such as race/ethnicity, on completion were also examined by introducing the product of potential interaction terms into the model.
The study was designed to have 90% power to detect a difference in CRC completion proportions of 20% between the Choice and single-recommendation arms (.05 [2-sided] significance level, assuming an intraclinic correlation coefficient of 0.05). Assuming at most a 15% dropout, the recruitment goal was set at 990 participants in order to assure a final sample size of 842 or more. This study was approved by the University of California, San Francisco, institutional review board and was registered prior to participant enrollment through ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT00705731).
Of 1072 eligible patients identified, 997 (93%) were enrolled in the study, of whom 973 (98%) were successfully followed to the primary end point (completion of a CRC screening strategy or 12 months of follow-up). Enrollment initiated in April 2007, and follow-up was completed March 2010. Details of the study solicitation, enrollment, and follow-up are outlined in Figure 1. The characteristics of the study participants are presented in Table 1. The mean age of the participants was 58.4 years (range, 50-79 years), and 53% were women. The group was racially/ethnically diverse with excellent representation of Latino and Asian patients, and there was no significant difference in participation between racial or ethnic groups. English was the preferred language by 55% of participants, while 27% preferred Spanish and 18% preferred either Cantonese or Mandarin. While the majority had annual incomes of less than $20 000, with 57% having incomes of less than $10 000, 67% had attained a high school diploma or general equivalency diploma, and 39% had attended college. While only 17% stated no insurance, the majority had public insurance including the San Francisco health access plan.
Figure 1. Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) diagram. FOBT indicates fecal occult blood testing.
Within 12 months of enrollment, 58% of participants completed the CRC screening strategy they were assigned or chose. Quiz Ref IDA significantly lower proportion of participants in the colonoscopy arm completed colonoscopy (38.2%) compared with participants in the FOBT arm completing FOBT (67.2%) (P < .001) or participants who were allowed to choose their screening strategy (68.8%) (P < .001) (Figure 2). Moreover, the proportion of participants who completed either CRC screening strategy after being recommended colonoscopy (58.1%, including those who completed FOBT) was significantly lower compared with participants recommended FOBT or participants who were allowed to choose their screening strategy (67.2% [P = .01] and 68.8% [P = .004], respectively).
Figure 2. Completion rates by study arm. Participants recommended colonoscopy completed screening at a significantly lower rate than participants recommended fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) or a choice between colonoscopy or FOBT. The level of statistical significance was reduced to .01 to adjust for multiple comparisons.
There were significant differences between racial/ethnic groups with regard to completion of CRC screening strategies. African Americans had the lowest CRC screening completion rate (48.0%), while Asians (60.7%) and Latinos (62.9%) had the highest rates (Table 2). Moreover, there were differences between racial/ethnic groups in completion of FOBT vs colonoscopy strategies. Nonwhites were more likely to complete FOBT, while whites were significantly more likely to complete colonoscopy than nonwhites (Figure 3). Correspondingly, among participants in the Choice arm, completion varied by race/ethnicity, with nonwhites completing FOBT significantly more often and white participants being more likely to complete colonoscopy.
Figure 3. Adherence by study arm and race/ethnicity. Among participants offered a choice of screening tests, white participants adhered more often to colonoscopy than nonwhite participants (odds ratio [OR], 3.2; 95% CI, 1.7-6.1), and less often to fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) (OR, 0.3; 95% CI, 0.1-0.6). Among participants offered FOBT, Asians (OR, 2.6; 95% CI, 1.2-5.3) and Latinos (OR, 2.1; 95% CI, 1.0-4.2) adhered more often than whites.
Of the 226 participants who underwent colonoscopy, 74 (32.7%) had adenomatous polyps: 34 participants (15.0%) had a single adenoma, 19 (8.4%) had 2, 8 (3.5%) had 3, 7 (3.1%) had 4, and 6 (2.7%) had 5 or more removed. No cancers were detected. Of 8 participants who had positive FOBT test results, 5 underwent colonoscopy and 3 were nonadherent (2 refused colonoscopy and 1 missed her scheduled appointment multiple times).
Several sociodemographic factors were associated with adherence to CRC screening. In addition to age and race/ethnicity, language preference affected adherence (Table 2). Quiz Ref IDParticipants who preferred to conduct their interviews in Spanish, Cantonese, or Mandarin were significantly more likely to adhere to CRC screening than participants of the same race/ethnicity who preferred to conduct the interview in English. Patients with private or public insurance more often completed screening compared with those without insurance. Patients without high school diplomas had greater adherence than those with diplomas. Clustering by PCP was examined but not found to be significant.
A multivariable model examining the study arm, age, race/ethnicity, and language revealed that completion of CRC screening among participants recommended colonoscopy remained significantly lower than other groups. However, the differences in completion between different race/ethnicity categories were eliminated when language was introduced (Table 2). Specifically, participants who preferred to conduct their interview in Cantonese or Mandarin completed screening more often than participants who preferred to speak English. No significant interaction between race/ethnicity and study arm on completion was noted.
In this randomized clinical trial of competing CRC screening strategies in a racially/ethnically diverse population, we found that patients for whom colonoscopy was recommended were less likely to complete CRC screening than those recommended FOBT or offered a choice between FOBT and colonoscopy. There were significant racial/ethnic differences in screening completion, however, with whites more often completing colonoscopy and nonwhites more often completing FOBT. Moreover, some of these differences were driven by language preference, in that Latinos preferring to speak Spanish and Asians preferring Cantonese or Mandarin completed screening at a higher rate than patients of the same racial/ethnic group who preferred to speak English.
Adherence to different CRC screening strategies has been examined through large population-based studies outside the United States. One Italian study found no difference in adherence between strategies,26 while a second study reported adherence to colonoscopy was significantly lower than to FOBT or FS.27 However, the infrastructure for test access was not standardized and outcomes were not stratified by race/ethnicity. In addition, adherence to any test was low (26%-32%), suggesting substantial differences in patient populations and/or access to CRC screening.
Prior studies reported low CRC screening rates among racial/ethnic minorities, especially among Asians,28 Latinos,28,29 and African Americans.29,30 While the present study confirms the disparity among African Americans, we observed higher adherence among Asians and Latinos than for whites. Our population had established access to health care, which may have reduced these racial differences. In addition, patients without high school diplomas adhered more often than those with diplomas. This unexpected result may indicate less variation and skewing toward lower education in our population.
Participants whose preferred language was not English adhered more often than participants of the same race/ethnicity who preferred to speak English. In fact, after adjusting for language, the racial differences were eliminated. Previous research has found that recent immigrants can suffer less from disparities and social problems than their offspring, or even fair better than nonimmigrants, especially when provided adequate access to resources and opportunity.31
Our hypothesis that giving patients a choice between CRC screening methods would decrease adherence was not supported by this study. However, evidence in decision psychology suggests that providing multiple choices can often lead to confusion, uncertainty, and a default to doing nothing.23,32,33 It may be that 2 options are insufficient to induce decisional conflict. Alternatively, the influence of the PCP may have reduced the need for decision making by the patient; however, this is unlikely, since a bias favoring colonoscopy as the preferred method for CRC screening was voiced by the majority of our PCPs (data not shown), strengthening our conclusion of a preference for FOBT among nonwhite participants.
Additional limitations to this study include a single-point observation of adherence and potential residual system barriers to colonoscopy performance. Results from a single safety-net health care system may not be generalizable to other populations. Quiz Ref IDIf we were successful in eliminating access barriers to screening tests this may reduce generalizability to nonstudy settings; however, this would imply potentially lower adherence to colonoscopy in settings where these access barriers were intact. Also, we did not formally test language fluency and assumed language preference based on what participants preferred to speak during the enrollment and survey process. Finally, there may be behavioral aspects of our PCPs or infrastructure factors that may be different from other health care systems.
In summary, this study found that limiting the recommendation for CRC screening to colonoscopy can result in a lower completion rate for CRC screening compared with providing a choice between FOBT or colonoscopy, especially among ethnic/racial minorities. Furthermore, we found significant differences in adherence to competing CRC screening tests between racial/ethnic groups. Moreover, these differences in utilization may be culturally based, specifically with regard to language or acculturation. Finally, at least in the population studied, this study demonstrated that a relatively high level of adherence to CRC screening can be achieved in low-income racial/ethnic minorities when barriers to access are reduced. Further research will determine whether these single-point observations can be translated to programmatic adherence and whether shared decision making or decision aids may increase screening completion.
Correspondence: John M. Inadomi, MD, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific St, Box 356424, Seattle, WA 98195 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Accepted for Publication: January 31, 2012.
Author Contributions:Study concept and design: Inadomi, Vijan, Janz, Fagerlin, Thomas, El-Nachef, and Hayward. Acquisition of data: Inadomi, Thomas, Lin, Muñoz, and Lau. Analysis and interpretation of data: Inadomi, Vijan, Janz, Fagerlin, Thomas, Somsouk, El-Nachef, and Hayward. Drafting of the manuscript: Inadomi, Thomas, Lin, and El-Nachef. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Inadomi, Vijan, Janz, Fagerlin, Muñoz, Lau, Somsouk, and Hayward. Statistical analysis: Inadomi, Vijan, Thomas, Somsouk, and Hayward. Obtained funding: Inadomi, Vijan, Janz, and Hayward. Administrative, technical, and material support: Inadomi, Thomas, Lin, Muñoz, Lau, and El-Nachef. Study supervision: Inadomi and Thomas.
Financial Disclosure: None reported.
Funding/Support: This work was supported by grant R01CA106773 from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, grant K24DK080941 from the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, and grant UL1 RR024131 from the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health.
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Chris Monsour, a 14-year science teacher, continues to learn and evolve as a teacher.
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Michael Douglas McDowell also admitted to bigamy, for marrying a woman while still married to his estranged wife. He was sentenced Tuesday to five years' probation in each case, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports (http://bit.ly/1btIye1 ).
McDowell, 57, spun a web of lies that lasted for years as he claimed a long military career that included secret intelligence work. He was sometimes seen with a briefcase handcuffed to his arm. He had a Washington, D.C. phone number with a voicemail informing callers that someone from his "command staff" would call back.
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Jackson was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m. at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center not far from his rental mansion in the Holmby Hills. The cause of death wasn't known. An autopsy is set for Friday.
"It's a very sad day for all of us," Jackson's manager, Frank DiLeo, tells PEOPLE. " It's such a terrible shame. He was my friend." As for Jackson's three children – Blanket, 7, Paris, 11, and Prince Michael, 12 – DiLeo says, "The kids are very upset, but they are fine."
The entertainer was stricken Thursday afternoon and a 911 call was placed. "His personal physician, who was with him at the time, attempted to resuscitate Jackson, as did paramedics who transferred him," according to a statement from the hospital.
Frantic, Futile EffortsWith an oxygen mask over his face, Jackson was carted to a red ambulance and rushed to the hospital, arriving at 1:14 p.m. "A team of doctors including emergency physicians and cardiologists attempted to resuscitate for a period of more than one hour but were unsuccessful," the statement says.
Jackson had been busy rehearsing for a high-stakes comeback tour, set to start within weeks in England, with dozens of dates scheduled and tickets selling out quickly. To prepare for the rigors of performing, he was training with Lou Ferrigno, the star of the TV show The Incredible Hulk.
Questions About His TourThere were some doubts among Jackson's circle about his ability to perform his upcoming concert schedule. "Michael is physically just not ready [for the concerts]," a source close to Jackson said last month. "He weighs even less than he did during his trial, which was almost nothing. He's 50 years old."
Famly members, including his mother Katherine, brothers Randy and Jermaine, and sisters Janet and LaToya, arrived separately at the hospital for a tense and tearful vigil. "First, it was chaotic [in the ER] and then absolute silence," says family lawyer Brian Oxman. "Everyone is just heartbroken. I'm heartbroken."
During the ordeal, Jackson's three children were left with a nanny, and plans were made for them to stay with Jackson's mother for the time being. "Mrs. Jackson loves the kids and she will care for them now," says Oxman.
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4 'Superpowers' Everyone Thinks They Secretly Have
#2. Reading Omens
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Each one of us is equipped with the ability to recognize potential threats long before our lives are in jeopardy. Our ancestors survived as a species because they could differentiate between the sound of a party and the sound of a pack of wolves. Even today, our intuition keeps us from climbing into windowless vans with strangers, helping Nigerian princes move bank accounts, and hanging out in trash compactors aboard Death Stars. I mention all these examples because I want to be perfectly clear that premonition is a very real faculty we can employ when we are surrounded by red flags, but it is not the same thing as seeing two cats screwing in an alley and assuming that's a sign that you shouldn't go to work today.
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"I knew it, another sick day."
We have a hard time telling the difference between intuition and divination, and we frequently mistake hurdles in our lives for a tingling spider sense trying to warn us that we're on the wrong path. It's a superpower we all privately believe we possess, like we've added fate to our RSS feed and we get warnings before anyone else. Unfortunately, trying to interpret omens usually ends up as a convenient excuse to never do anything difficult. It's also a great way to explain away our own negligence. I can't even count the number of times the universe has conspired to slip liquids and gels into my carry-on when I'm already late for a flight, just to warn me that my plane is going to crash, or worse, that my trip home is going to be really boring. Oh, and speaking of doomed flights ...
#1. Causing Disasters by Joking About Them
Recently I was on a flight during which the attendant joked over the intercom that we should all hold on tight because the plane was so full that the tail might scrape the ground during takeoff. He was booed savagely by a few passengers, and the woman seated in front of me made demands to another attendant that he be fired. She said, verbatim, "He could have gotten us all killed. There are just some things you don't joke about unless you want them to happen."
At first I thought she was being ridiculous, but on the off chance that he really did have the ability to incite tragedy just by mentioning its possibility, then I agree with her that working in a flying steel tube is probably not the best job for him.
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"And if a window cracks even a little, we'll all be sucked out into the air like pudding through a sieve."
The truth is, there's a little bit of crazy lady from 14D in all of us. We believe we have the power to jinx situations by acknowledging the worst case scenario out loud, like atrocities are T. rexes that can only find us when we make noise. It's a movie universe rule that accidentally infiltrated our lives and saddled us all with the belief that we can curse trains into derailment and our friends into cancer just by thinking about it. For instance, if I say ...
"Everyone who rushed to the comments to tell me that Marianne Williamson is responsible for the quotation I used at the top of this article: I promise you will suffer a terrible bout of diarrhea this week that will require hospitalization."
... your immediate reaction might be "Don't even joke about that." But the reality is that my words just aren't powerful enough to make it happen, regardless of how much I mean them (a lot -- it's going to be awful for you). Telling a joke isn't the same thing as controlling fate, and it certainly can't manifest my subconscious. If it could, there's no way I'd used that power for good. I'd live in a volcano hideout and the government would be paying me billions in ransom to ensure that I don't turn all your eyelids into labia.
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