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Patient and physician characteristics affect adherence to screening mammography: A population-based cohort study
BACKGROUND: Screening mammograms are widely recommended biennially for women between the ages of 50 and 74. Despite the benefits of screening mammograms, full adherence to recommendations falls below 75% in most developed countries. Many studies have identified individual (obesity, smoking, socio-ec...
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2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5870964/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29584742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194409 |
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author | Katz, Daniela Tengekyon, Angela J. Kahan, Natan R. Calderon-Margalit, Ronit |
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description | BACKGROUND: Screening mammograms are widely recommended biennially for women between the ages of 50 and 74. Despite the benefits of screening mammograms, full adherence to recommendations falls below 75% in most developed countries. Many studies have identified individual (obesity, smoking, socio-economic status, and co-morbid conditions) and primary-care physician parameters (physician age, gender, clinic size and cost) that influence adherence, but little data exists from large population studies regarding the interaction of these individual factors. METHODS: We performed a historical cohort study of 44,318 Israeli women age 56–74 using data captured from electronic medical records of a large Israeli health maintenance organization. Univariate analysis was used to examine the association between each factor and adherence (none, partial or full) with screening recommendations between 2008–2014. Multivariate analysis was used to examine the significance of these factors in combination, using binary and multinomial logistic regression. RESULTS: Among 44,318 women, 42%, 43% and 15% were fully, partially and non-adherent to screening recommendations, respectively. Factors associated with inferior adherence identified in our population included: smoking, obesity, low body weight, low socio-economic status, depression, diabetes mellitus and infrequent physician visits, while, women with ischemic heart disease, female physicians, physicians between the ages of 40 and 60, and medium-sized clinics were associated with higher screening rates. Most factors remained significant in the multivariate analysis. CONCLUSIONS: Both individual and primary-care physician factors contribute to adherence to mammography screening guidelines. Strategies to improve adherence and address disparities in mammography utilization will need to address these factors. |
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spelling | pubmed-58709642018-04-06 Patient and physician characteristics affect adherence to screening mammography: A population-based cohort study Katz, Daniela Tengekyon, Angela J. Kahan, Natan R. Calderon-Margalit, Ronit PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Screening mammograms are widely recommended biennially for women between the ages of 50 and 74. Despite the benefits of screening mammograms, full adherence to recommendations falls below 75% in most developed countries. Many studies have identified individual (obesity, smoking, socio-economic status, and co-morbid conditions) and primary-care physician parameters (physician age, gender, clinic size and cost) that influence adherence, but little data exists from large population studies regarding the interaction of these individual factors. METHODS: We performed a historical cohort study of 44,318 Israeli women age 56–74 using data captured from electronic medical records of a large Israeli health maintenance organization. Univariate analysis was used to examine the association between each factor and adherence (none, partial or full) with screening recommendations between 2008–2014. Multivariate analysis was used to examine the significance of these factors in combination, using binary and multinomial logistic regression. RESULTS: Among 44,318 women, 42%, 43% and 15% were fully, partially and non-adherent to screening recommendations, respectively. Factors associated with inferior adherence identified in our population included: smoking, obesity, low body weight, low socio-economic status, depression, diabetes mellitus and infrequent physician visits, while, women with ischemic heart disease, female physicians, physicians between the ages of 40 and 60, and medium-sized clinics were associated with higher screening rates. Most factors remained significant in the multivariate analysis. CONCLUSIONS: Both individual and primary-care physician factors contribute to adherence to mammography screening guidelines. Strategies to improve adherence and address disparities in mammography utilization will need to address these factors. Public Library of Science 2018-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5870964/ /pubmed/29584742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194409 Text en © 2018 Katz et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Katz, Daniela Tengekyon, Angela J. Kahan, Natan R. Calderon-Margalit, Ronit Patient and physician characteristics affect adherence to screening mammography: A population-based cohort study |
title | Patient and physician characteristics affect adherence to screening mammography: A population-based cohort study |
title_full | Patient and physician characteristics affect adherence to screening mammography: A population-based cohort study |
title_fullStr | Patient and physician characteristics affect adherence to screening mammography: A population-based cohort study |
title_full_unstemmed | Patient and physician characteristics affect adherence to screening mammography: A population-based cohort study |
title_short | Patient and physician characteristics affect adherence to screening mammography: A population-based cohort study |
title_sort | patient and physician characteristics affect adherence to screening mammography: a population-based cohort study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5870964/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29584742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194409 |
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