Patient navigation to increase mammography screening among inner city women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lower mammography screening rates among minority and low income women contribute to increased morbidity and mortality from breast cancer.

Objective

To evaluate the effect of a patient navigation intervention on adherence rates to biennial screening mammography among women engaged in primary care at an inner-city academic medical center.

Design

Quality improvement intervention with a concurrent control group, conducted from February to November of 2008.

Study subjects

All women in a hospital-based primary care practice aged 51-70 years. Subjects were randomized at the level of their primary care provider, such that half of the patients in the practice received the intervention, while the other half received usual care.

Interventions

Interventio

SUBMITTER: Phillips CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3019333 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature