Title
Compliance with mammography guidelines: physician recommendation and patient adherence
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
Publication Date
1999-03-26
Document Type
Article
Subjects
Aged; Alabama; Breast Neoplasms; Female; Guideline Adherence; Health Care Surveys; Humans; Insurance, Health; Mammography; Middle Aged; Patient Compliance; Physician's Practice Patterns; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Primary Health Care; Referral and Consultation; Retrospective Studies; Statistics as Topic
Disciplines
Bioinformatics | Biostatistics | Epidemiology | Health Services Research
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Guidelines recommend that women ages 50-75 years receive screening mammography every 1-2 years. We related receipt of physician recommendations for mammography and patient adherence to such recommendations to several patient characteristics.
METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed medical records of 1,111 women ages 50-75 attending three clinics in an urban university medical center. We ascertained overall compliance with mammography guidelines and two components of compliance: receipt of a physician recommendation and adherence to a recommendation. Outcome measures were the proportion of patients demonstrating each type of compliance and adjusted odds ratios, according to several patient-related characteristics.
RESULTS: Overall, 66% of women received a recommendation. Of women receiving a documented recommendation, 75% adhered. Factors showing significant positive associations with receiving a recommendation included being a patient in the general internal medicine clinic, having private insurance, visiting the clinic more often, and having a recent Pap smear. Patient adherence was positively associated with private insurance and Pap smear history, negatively associated with internal medicine, and not associated with visit frequency.
CONCLUSIONS: Patient factors influencing physician mammography recommendations may be different from those associated with patient adherence, except for having private health insurance, which was a predictor of both.
DOI of Published Version
10.1006/pmed.1998.0443
Source
Prev Med. 1999 Apr;28(4):386-94. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Preventive medicine
PubMed ID
10090868
Related Resources
Repository Citation
May, Daniel S.; Kiefe, Catarina I.; Funkhouser, Ellen M.; and Fouad, Mona N., "Compliance with mammography guidelines: physician recommendation and patient adherence" (1999). Quantitative Health Sciences Publications and Presentations. 128.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/qhs_pp/128
