Compliance and Self-Reported Barriers to Follow-Up of Abnormal Screening Mammograms Among Women Utilizing a County Mobile Mammography Van

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ID15217174
AuthorsMonica E Peek (0000-0003-0434-7231, University of Chicago, corresponding author), Jini Han (NorthShore University HealthSystem), Jini H Han
Year2009
Volume30
Issue10
Pages857-870
Publication date2009-09-09
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth Care For Women International (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0739-9332 • E-ISSN: 1096-4665
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07399330903066350
PMID19742361
OpenAlexW2010164092
LanguageEN
References cited30

Our primary objective was to describe the follow-up patterns for abnormal screening mammograms among women in a large urban county who utilized mobile mammography. We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis using electronic records, medical chart review, and questionnaires. Compliance with diagnostic evaluation was 43% to 60%. Among women who did have follow-up, more than 40% did not do so in a timely fashion. Younger women and those with less suspicious mammograms were more likely to have longer delays. We concluded that programs that utilize mobile mammography should include intensive, multilingual tracking systems in order increase diagnostic follow-up for this vulnerable population

Breast cancer · Cancer · Cohort · Environmental health · Family medicine · Mammography · Medical record · Obstetrics · Pathology · Population · Radiology · Retrospective cohort study · Screening mammography · Cervical Cancer and HPV Research · Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection · Global Cancer Incidence and Screening · Medicine · Internal Medicine · Surgery

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