The Effect of the 2009 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations on Mammography Rates.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the effect of a change in U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) screening guidelines on mammography rates in the United States.

Principal findings

In 2010, the year following the change in guidelines, 12-month mammography prevalence among women aged 40-49 years fell by 2.09 percentage points (95 percent confidence interval [CI]: -2.87 to -1.31) from 54.63 percent in 2008. For women aged 50-74 years, and aged 75 years and older, 12-month screening rates were 2.21 (95 percent CI: -2.65 to -1.77) and 3.60 (95 percent CI: -4.48 to -2.70) percentage points lower than those in 2008. In 2012, for women aged 40-49 years, 12-month prevalence fell to 52.51 percent, a decline of 2.12 percentage points (95 percent CI: -2.79 to -1.32) relative to screening rat

SUBMITTER: Gray N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4946042 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature