Table 1

Publicly reported diagnostic process or outcome cancer profile indicators during the study years (see also online supplementary appendices 1 and 3)

Indicator name	Description (proportion or rate)
Process indicators
Breast screening coverage	Per cent of the eligible practice population (women aged 50–69) screened in the last 36 months
Cervical screening coverage	Per cent of the eligible practice population (women aged 25–64) screened in the target period
Bowel screening coverage	Per cent of the eligible practice population (men and women aged 60–69) screened in the last 36 months
Sigmoidoscopy rate*	Rate per 100 000 registered patients per year
Colonoscopy rate*	Rate per 100 000 registered patients per year
Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy rate*	Rate per 100 000 registered patients per year
TWW referral rate†	Rate per 100 000 registered patients per year
TWW referral rate (colorectal)	Rate per 100 000 registered patients per year
TWW referral rate (lung)	Rate per 100 000 registered patients per year
TWW referral rate (skin)	Rate per 100 000 registered patients per year
TWW referral rate (breast)	Rate per 100 000 registered patients per year
Outcome indicators
TWW conversion rate	Per cent of TWW referrals resulting in a diagnosis of cancer
TWW detection rate	Per cent of new cancer cases treated which resulted from a TWW referral
Emergency route to diagnosi	Per cent of new cancer cases diagnosed via an emergency hospital admission
Referred route to diagnosi	Per cent of new cancer cases diagnosed following outpatient referral to hospital
Other route to diagnosis	Per cent of new cancer cases diagnosed through another route (eg, via screening)

*For these three (endoscopy) indicators some practices had suppressed data (if count <6), and for those we were able to use numerators imputed with the average among supressed practices.
†The publicly reported data also include an indirectly age-sex standardised rate not used here.
TWW, two-week wait.