Findings from T. Onega et al Has Provided New Information about Breast Cancer (Alignment of Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines, Accountability…

Findings from T. Onega et al Has Provided New Information about Breast Cancer (Alignment of Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines, Accountability Metrics, and Practice Patterns)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Research findings on Oncology - Breast Cancer are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting out of Lebanon, New Hampshire, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, "Breast cancer screening guidelines and metrics are inconsistent with each other and may differ from breast screening practice patterns in primary care. This study measured breast cancer screening practice patterns in relation to common evidence-based guidelines and accountability metrics."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research, "Cohort study using primary data collected from a regional breast cancer screening research network between 2011 and 2014. Using information on women aged 30 to 89 years within 21 primary care practices of 2 large integrated health systems in New England, we measured the proportion of women screened overall and by age using 2 screening definition categories: any mammogram and screening mammogram. Of the 81,352 women in our cohort, 54,903 (67.5%) had at least 1 mammogram during the time period, 48,314 (59.4%) had a screening mammogram. Women aged 50 to 69 years were the highest proportion screened (82.4% any mammogram, 75% screening indication); 72.6% of women at age 40 had a screening mammogram with a median of 70% (range = 54.3%-84.8%) among the practices. Of women aged at least 75 years, 63.3% had a screening mammogram, with the median of 63.9% (range = 37.2%78.3%) among the practices. Of women who had 2 or more mammograms, 79.5% were screened annually. Primary care practice patterns for breast cancer screening are not well aligned with some evidence-based guidelines and accountability metrics."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Metrics and incentives should be designed with more uniformity and should also include shared decision making when the evidence does not clearly support one single conclusion."

For more information on this research see: Alignment of Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines, Accountability Metrics, and Practice Patterns. American Journal of Managed Care, 2017;23(1):35-40. American Journal of Managed Care can be contacted at: Managed Care & Healthcare Communications Llc, 666 Plainsboro Rd, Ste 300, Plainsboro, NJ 08536, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting M. Goodrich, Geisel Sch Med Dartmouth, Dept. of Biomed Data Sci, Lebanon, NH, United States. Additional authors for this research include J.S. Haas, A. Bitton, C. Brackett, J. Weiss, M. Goodrich, K. Harris, S. Pyle and A.N.A. Tosteson.

Keywords for this news article include: Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States, North and Central America, Diagnostics and Screening, Breast Cancer Screening, Risk and Prevention, Women's Health, Mammography, Mammogram, Oncology.

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