Improving screening recall services for women with false-positive mammograms: a comparison of qualitative evidence with UK guidelines.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To gain an understanding of the views of women with false-positive screening mammograms of screening recall services, their ideas for service improvements and how these compare with current UK guidelines.

Methods

Inductive qualitative content analysis of semistructured interviews of 21 women who had false-positive screening mammograms. These were then compared with UK National Health Service (NHS) guidelines.

Results

Participants' concerns about mammography screening recall services focused on issues of communication and choice. Many of the issues raised indicated that the 1998 NHS Breast Screening Programme guidelines on improving the quality of written information sent to women who are recalled, had not been fully implemented. This included being told a c

SUBMITTER: Bond M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4316556 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature