Dorothy S Lane
Biographic Data
| ID | 3824932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorothy S Lane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorothy S |
| FAMILY NAME | Lane |
| SIGNATURE | LANE D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3272-0451 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Air Pollutants and Breast Cancer Risk: A Parallel Analysis of Five Large US Prospective Cohorts
Objectives. To determine whether outdoor air pollution exposure is associated with breast cancer incidence. Methods. Residential-level concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 , parts per billion [ppb]), fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ; ≤ 2.5 μ/m 3 ) and ozone (ppb) in the United States were estimated for participants of the Nurses’ Health Studies, Women’s Health Initiative Clinical Trials and Observational Study Cohort, and Sister Study using h…
Impact of Project SCOPE on Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Screening Colonoscopies
A Provider Intervention to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening in County Health Centers
BACKGROUND: Publicly-funded health centers serve disadvantaged populations who underuse colorectal cancer screening (CRC). Because physicians play a key role in patient adherence to screening, provider interventions within health center practices could improve the delivery/utilization of CRC screening. METHODS: A 2-group study design was used with 4 pairs of health centers randomized to the intervention or control condition. The provider interven…
The use of mammography vans by low-income women: The accuracy of self-reports
The objective of this study was to determine the accuracy of self-reports of mammography use by low-income income women. Mammography van records were used to verify self-reports of mammography use in the past year by women aged 50 through 75 years who had visited five community health centers (n = 237). Van records verified mammography use for 99% of these women (82% within the previous year and 98% within the past 2 years). Forty percent of thos…
Strategies to Increase Mammography Utilization Among Community Health Center Visitors: Improving Awareness, Accessibility, and Affordability
From the School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York †From the School of Social Welfare, Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York
Breast cancer screening practices among users of county-funded health centers vs women in the entire community
BACKGROUND. Breast cancer screening rates tend to be lower among women with lower income and/or education. METHODS. Telephone surveys of random samples of women aged 50 to 75 who had visited five health centers (n = 795) and women in the same age group residing in the entire community (n = 404) were conducted in 1988. RESULTS. Despite the significantly lower socioeconomic level, a higher proportion of minority women, and a poorer knowledge of mam…
Mail Versus Telephone Surveys on Mammography Utilization Among Women 50-75 Years Old
Surveys are needed to monitor trends in mammography use and to evaluate intervention programs aimed at increasing breast cancer screening. In a community-based intervention project in Long Island (New York), estimated response rates were similar in separate random surveys of women 50-75 years old by mail and telephone. Respondents by mail (n = 2,368) and telephone (n = 1,011) were similar in distributions of age, marital status, and educational l…
Age Group Differences in the Use of Breast Cancer Screening Tests: The Effects of Health Care Utilization and Socioeconomic Variables
The age-related decline in the use of breast cancer screening tests, specifically periodic mammography and physical breast examinations by a doctor, is especially problematic given that breast cancer risk increases with age. Survey data (N = 3,507) from the Awareness of Breast Cancer Project are used to compare the effects of socioeconomic variables and usual health care use variables on recent use of breast cancer screening tests in women 50 to …
The impact of media coverage of Nancy Reagan's experience on breast cancer screening
In surveys of random samples of women 50 years of age and older residing in two communities in Long Island, New York, both within-subject (cohort) and independent-sample comparisons were made before and after the media announcements of Nancy Reagan's breast cancer. Knowledge of lifetime risk of breast cancer increased significantly only in the cohort comparison, while self-perception of risk did not increase. Small proportions of women surveyed, …
Long-term outcome of smoking cessation workshops
Three hundred seventy-two (63%) of 590 enrollees in nine smoking cessation workshops held over a five-year period responded to a follow-up survey. Outcome data were collected retrospectively for six-month intervals from workshop to follow-up. Forty nine per cent of all enrollees graduated, and 56% of the respondents quit smoking during the program. Nonsmoking rates declined to an average of 25% by the first year post-workshop and remained relativ…
Measures and Methods in Evaluating Patient Education Programs for Chronic Illness
Patient education provides a vehicle for increasing the self-management of chronic illness and promoting modifications of life styles, which are considered important strategies for prevention. Evaluating the impact of such programs is complex and poses a number of methodologic and technical problems. Outcome measures of patient education programs are defined and reviewed in terms of the existing evaluation literature and our own studies utilizing…
The community hospital as a focus for health planning
A community hospital focus for health planning has been developed by a Department of Community Medicine in a "non-teaching" voluntary hospital. Results of three years of planning experience have included: descriptions of service area populations and utilizer populations; implementation of neighborhood based health centers with transportation and outreach programs; integration of emergency services with other ambulatory care resources; and proposa…
Assessment of Maternal Health Care Quality: Conceptual and Methodologic Issues
Past efforts in assessment of the quality of maternity care have been analyzed in order to develop an evaluation framework that will have utility and applicability beyond a specific program, population, or health discipline. Presently available evaluation approaches have focused attention on either "high risk" populations or upon women experiencing a complicated pregnancy or delivery. Quality has been defined as the extent to which normative or e…
The diagnosis and management of the walk-in syndrome
The diagnosis and management of the walk-in syndrome. D S LaneCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.64.9.908 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The use of mammography vans by low-income women: The accuracy of self-reports
The objective of this study was to determine the accuracy of self-reports of mammography use by low-income income women. Mammography van records were used to verify self-reports of mammography use in the past year by women aged 50 through 75 years who had visited five community health centers (n = 237). Van records verified mammography use for 99% of these women (82% within the previous year and 98% within the past 2 years). Forty percent of thos…
Breast cancer screening practices among users of county-funded health centers vs women in the entire community
BACKGROUND. Breast cancer screening rates tend to be lower among women with lower income and/or education. METHODS. Telephone surveys of random samples of women aged 50 to 75 who had visited five health centers (n = 795) and women in the same age group residing in the entire community (n = 404) were conducted in 1988. RESULTS. Despite the significantly lower socioeconomic level, a higher proportion of minority women, and a poorer knowledge of mam…
Age Group Differences in the Use of Breast Cancer Screening Tests: The Effects of Health Care Utilization and Socioeconomic Variables
The age-related decline in the use of breast cancer screening tests, specifically periodic mammography and physical breast examinations by a doctor, is especially problematic given that breast cancer risk increases with age. Survey data (N = 3,507) from the Awareness of Breast Cancer Project are used to compare the effects of socioeconomic variables and usual health care use variables on recent use of breast cancer screening tests in women 50 to …
The impact of media coverage of Nancy Reagan's experience on breast cancer screening
In surveys of random samples of women 50 years of age and older residing in two communities in Long Island, New York, both within-subject (cohort) and independent-sample comparisons were made before and after the media announcements of Nancy Reagan's breast cancer. Knowledge of lifetime risk of breast cancer increased significantly only in the cohort comparison, while self-perception of risk did not increase. Small proportions of women surveyed, …
Long-term outcome of smoking cessation workshops
Three hundred seventy-two (63%) of 590 enrollees in nine smoking cessation workshops held over a five-year period responded to a follow-up survey. Outcome data were collected retrospectively for six-month intervals from workshop to follow-up. Forty nine per cent of all enrollees graduated, and 56% of the respondents quit smoking during the program. Nonsmoking rates declined to an average of 25% by the first year post-workshop and remained relativ…
The diagnosis and management of the walk-in syndrome
The diagnosis and management of the walk-in syndrome. D S LaneCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.64.9.908 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Assessment of Maternal Health Care Quality: Conceptual and Methodologic Issues
Past efforts in assessment of the quality of maternity care have been analyzed in order to develop an evaluation framework that will have utility and applicability beyond a specific program, population, or health discipline. Presently available evaluation approaches have focused attention on either "high risk" populations or upon women experiencing a complicated pregnancy or delivery. Quality has been defined as the extent to which normative or e…
The community hospital as a focus for health planning
A community hospital focus for health planning has been developed by a Department of Community Medicine in a "non-teaching" voluntary hospital. Results of three years of planning experience have included: descriptions of service area populations and utilizer populations; implementation of neighborhood based health centers with transportation and outreach programs; integration of emergency services with other ambulatory care resources; and proposa…
Measures and Methods in Evaluating Patient Education Programs for Chronic Illness
Patient education provides a vehicle for increasing the self-management of chronic illness and promoting modifications of life styles, which are considered important strategies for prevention. Evaluating the impact of such programs is complex and poses a number of methodologic and technical problems. Outcome measures of patient education programs are defined and reviewed in terms of the existing evaluation literature and our own studies utilizing…
Long-term outcome of smoking cessation workshops
Three hundred seventy-two (63%) of 590 enrollees in nine smoking cessation workshops held over a five-year period responded to a follow-up survey. Outcome data were collected retrospectively for six-month intervals from workshop to follow-up. Forty nine per cent of all enrollees graduated, and 56% of the respondents quit smoking during the program. Nonsmoking rates declined to an average of 25% by the first year post-workshop and remained relativ…
The impact of media coverage of Nancy Reagan's experience on breast cancer screening
In surveys of random samples of women 50 years of age and older residing in two communities in Long Island, New York, both within-subject (cohort) and independent-sample comparisons were made before and after the media announcements of Nancy Reagan's breast cancer. Knowledge of lifetime risk of breast cancer increased significantly only in the cohort comparison, while self-perception of risk did not increase. Small proportions of women surveyed, …
Age Group Differences in the Use of Breast Cancer Screening Tests: The Effects of Health Care Utilization and Socioeconomic Variables
The age-related decline in the use of breast cancer screening tests, specifically periodic mammography and physical breast examinations by a doctor, is especially problematic given that breast cancer risk increases with age. Survey data (N = 3,507) from the Awareness of Breast Cancer Project are used to compare the effects of socioeconomic variables and usual health care use variables on recent use of breast cancer screening tests in women 50 to …
Mail Versus Telephone Surveys on Mammography Utilization Among Women 50-75 Years Old
Surveys are needed to monitor trends in mammography use and to evaluate intervention programs aimed at increasing breast cancer screening. In a community-based intervention project in Long Island (New York), estimated response rates were similar in separate random surveys of women 50-75 years old by mail and telephone. Respondents by mail (n = 2,368) and telephone (n = 1,011) were similar in distributions of age, marital status, and educational l…
Breast cancer screening practices among users of county-funded health centers vs women in the entire community
BACKGROUND. Breast cancer screening rates tend to be lower among women with lower income and/or education. METHODS. Telephone surveys of random samples of women aged 50 to 75 who had visited five health centers (n = 795) and women in the same age group residing in the entire community (n = 404) were conducted in 1988. RESULTS. Despite the significantly lower socioeconomic level, a higher proportion of minority women, and a poorer knowledge of mam…
Strategies to Increase Mammography Utilization Among Community Health Center Visitors: Improving Awareness, Accessibility, and Affordability
From the School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York †From the School of Social Welfare, Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York
The use of mammography vans by low-income women: The accuracy of self-reports
The objective of this study was to determine the accuracy of self-reports of mammography use by low-income income women. Mammography van records were used to verify self-reports of mammography use in the past year by women aged 50 through 75 years who had visited five community health centers (n = 237). Van records verified mammography use for 99% of these women (82% within the previous year and 98% within the past 2 years). Forty percent of thos…
A Provider Intervention to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening in County Health Centers
BACKGROUND: Publicly-funded health centers serve disadvantaged populations who underuse colorectal cancer screening (CRC). Because physicians play a key role in patient adherence to screening, provider interventions within health center practices could improve the delivery/utilization of CRC screening. METHODS: A 2-group study design was used with 4 pairs of health centers randomized to the intervention or control condition. The provider interven…
Impact of Project SCOPE on Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Screening Colonoscopies
Air Pollutants and Breast Cancer Risk: A Parallel Analysis of Five Large US Prospective Cohorts
Objectives. To determine whether outdoor air pollution exposure is associated with breast cancer incidence. Methods. Residential-level concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 , parts per billion [ppb]), fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ; ≤ 2.5 μ/m 3 ) and ozone (ppb) in the United States were estimated for participants of the Nurses’ Health Studies, Women’s Health Initiative Clinical Trials and Observational Study Cohort, and Sister Study using h…
Medicine (13 works) · Family medicine (11 works) · Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (8 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Gerontology (7 works) · Breast cancer (6 works) · Cancer (6 works) · Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection (5 works) · Demography (5 works) · Gerontology (5 works)