German mammography screening program: program sensitivity between 2010 and 2016 estimated based on German health claims data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Program sensitivity is a key quality indicator for mammography screening programs (MSP). Estimating program sensitivity usually requires a linkage of screening and cancer registry data. For the German MSP, such data linkage-based estimates have only been reported for two out of 16 federal states. We aimed to explore the potential of estimating program sensitivity for the German MSP based on information available in health claims data.

Methods

We used data from the second-largest statutory health insurance fund in Germany, BARMER (~ 9 million members all over Germany). We included women aged 50 to 69 years with a non-initial screening mammography between 2010 and 2016 and followed them up for two years. We estimated the rate of screen-detected and interval cancers

SUBMITTER: Heinze F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10496211 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature