Audit results for GP requests for faecal calprotectin levels across Somerset from 1 November 2013 to 31 October 2015 (n=308 patients)
| Referral to secondary care | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FC result | Number of tests | Referral made | Referral not made | Number of patients with GI pathology identified if referred and investigated | ||||||
| Total | 308 | Yes | Referred but DNA appointment(s) | No | Patient refused referral/investigation | Moved away/lost to follow-up | Infection present in microbiology stool sample | UC/Crohn's disease | Other GI pathology | Normal |
| ≤50 μg/g | 210 | 43 | 6 | 167 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 |
| 51–150 μg/g | 63 | 38 | 5 | 19 (one awaiting repeat FC) | – | 3 | 3 | 1 (tiny localised aphthoid ulcers in rectosigmoid histology non-diagnostic) | One panniculitis one bile acid malabsorption | 30 |
| ≥151 μg/g | 35 | 31 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 11 | Two bile acid malabsorption | 17 |
FC, faecal calprotectin; GI, gastrointestinal; UC, ulcerative colitis.