Racial/Ethnic Differences in Patients' Selection of Surgeons and Hospitals for Breast Cancer Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Racial differences in breast cancer treatment may result in part from differences in the surgeons and hospitals from whom patients receive their care. However, little is known about differences in patients' selection of surgeons and hospitals.

Objective

To examine racial/ethnic differences in how women selected their surgeons and hospitals for breast cancer surgery.

Design, setting, and participants

We surveyed 500 women (222 non-Hispanic white, 142 non-Hispanic black, 89 English-speaking Hispanic, and 47 Spanish-speaking Hispanic) from northern California cancer registries with stage 0 to III breast cancer diagnosed during 2010 through 2011. We used multivariable logistic regression to assess the reasons for surgeon and hospital selection by race/ethnicity

SUBMITTER: Freedman RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4944092 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature