Published in:
01-12-2019 | Care | Concise Research Reports
Who Orders Screening Mammograms in Older Women with Limited Life Expectancy?
Authors:
Nancy L. Schoenborn, MD, MHS, Jin Huang, MS, PhD, Cynthia M. Boyd, MD, MPH, Sarah Nowak, PhD, Craig E. Pollack, MD, MHS
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 12/2019
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Excerpt
Breast cancer screening in older women with limited life expectancy may pose more harms than benefits but many of these women still receive screening mammograms.
1, 2 Clinician recommendation is an important driver of screening.
2 Previous surveys suggest that specialists are more likely than generalists to recommend screening mammograms for older women.
3, 4 With the goal of better targeting future interventions, we examined the specialties of the clinicians who referred older women for mammograms in a nationally representative cohort and whether the specialties varied depending on the women’s estimated life expectancies. We then investigated whether the receipt of screening mammograms was linked with outpatient visits with different types of clinicians. …
