Impact of Improved Screening Mammography Recall Lay Letter Readability on Patient Follow-Up.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

In the setting of abnormal results on screening mammography, the Mammography Quality Standards Act mandates that patients receive a mailed "recall" lay letter informing them to return for additional follow-up imaging. The language used in this letter should be "easily understood by a lay person." In February 2019, the authors' institution revised the language of its recall lay letter to the sixth grade reading level. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of improved readability on patient follow-up rates.

Methods

In this retrospective study, data from all screening mammograms at a single institution with BI-RADS category 0 assessments excluding technical recalls between February 2018 to February 2019 (pre-intervention group) and February 2019 to Februar

SUBMITTER: Nguyen DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7390731 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature