A digital intake tool to avert outpatient visits in a FIT-based colorectal cancer screening population: study protocol of a multicentre, prospective non-randomized trial - the DIT-trial.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateEthical approval was obtained from the Medical Ethics Committee of the Erasmus Medical Center (reference: MEC-2021-0098). Participants will be included when informed consent is obtained. Any adjustments to the study protocol will be registered in the Dutch Trial Register. Outcome of this study will be presented to national CRC screening committees that are involved in the decision making process to evaluate whether an eHealth tool can be implemented in the national FIT based CRC screening program. Furthermore, the findings of this project will be disseminated at (inter)national research meetings and congresses and through peer-reviewed publications. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsMCWS received research support from Norgine, Sentinel, and Sysmex. All other authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests MCWS received research support from Norgine, Sentinel, and Sysmex. All other authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This study is funded by the Top Consortium Knowledge & Innovation of the Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (TKI-LSH). This funding source had no role in the design of this study and will not have any role during its execution, analyses, interpretation of the data, or decision to submit results."

"Trial registration Dutch Trial Register: NL9315, date of registration: March 8th, 2021."