Colorectal cancer screening in countries of European Council outside of the EU-28

Table 2 Quality assessment of Epidemiological data source and methods according to Mathers et al[17]

Data source
EU-19	EU-19	EU-28	EU-28
Incidence	Mortality	Incidence	Mortality
A: Iceland Norway, Ukraine	1: Iceland, Republic of Moldova	A: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Sweden, Slovenia,Slovakia, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Finland, France (Martinique)	1: Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, United Kingdom, Finland
B: Serbia, Switzerland	2: Azerbaijan, Norway, Russian Federation, Serbia, Switzerland
C: Turkey			2: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, France (Guadalupe), (La Reunion), France (Martinique), France (Guiana)
D: Bosnia Herzegovina, Russian Federation		B: France, Germany, Italy, Spain
	3: Albania, Armenia, FYR Macedonia	C: Portugal, Poland
E: -		D: Luxembourg, France (La Reunion)
F: -	4: -	E: Romania
G: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, FYR Macedonia, Georgia, Montenegro, Republic of Moldova	5: Bosnia Herzegovina	F: -
	6: Georgia, Montenegro, Turkey	G: Greece, Hungary, France (Guadalupe), France (Guiana)
			3: Greece, Portugal, Poland
			4: - 5: - 6: -
Methods
EU-19	EU-28	EU-19	EU-28
Incidence	Mortality	Incidence	Mortality
1: Iceland, Norway	1: Albania, FYR Macedonia, Iceland, Norway, Republic of Moldova, Serbia, Switzerland	1: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden The Netherlands, United Kingdom, France (La Reunion), France (Martinique)	1: Austria. Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (metropolitan) Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, France (Martinique)
2: Bosnia Herzegovina, Ukraine
3: Turkey, Switzerland	2: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia Herzegovina, Georgia, Ukraine
4: Albania, FYR Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Serbia
		2: Belgium, Cyprus
	3: - 4: -	3: France (metropolitan) , Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain
5: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia	5: Turkey
	6: Montenegro	4: Greece, Hungary, Luxembourg, Portugal
6: Turkey		5: Romania, France (Guadalupe),	2: Belgium, Cyprus, France (Guadalupe)
7: - 8: -		6: - 7: - 8: - 9: -
9: Montenegro			3: Greece, Portugal, Poland
			4: -
			5: France (La Reunion)
			6: -

Comparison between EU-19 and EU-28 countries, as defined in the main text. -: No country classified in that category.