Use of Breast Cancer Screening and Its Association with Later Use of Preventive Services among Medicare Beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT: Purpose To retrospectively assess whether there is an association between screening mammography and the use of a variety of preventive services in women who are enrolled in Medicare. Materials and Methods U.S. Medicare claims from 2010 to 2014 Research Identifiable Files were reviewed to retrospectively identify a group of women who underwent screening mammography and a control group without screening mammography in 2012. The screened group was divided into positive versus negative results at screening, and the positive subgroup was divided into false-positive and true-positive findings. Multivariate logistic regression models and inverse probability of treatment weighting were used to examine the relationship between screening status and the probabilities of undergoing Papanicolaou test,

SUBMITTER: Kang SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6122660 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature