Should We Pursue Patients Who Fail to Attend Colorectal Clinics? A 9-Year Study

摘要

INTRODUCTIONNo uniform protocol exists on how to deal with patients who fail to attend colorectal clinics. Our aim was to identify whether the tendency to ‘failure to attend’ (FTA) in the colorectal clinic was associated with FTA in other clinics and also whether FTA patients have serious pathology.