Changes in Cancer Screening Rates Following a New Cancer Diagnosis in a Primary Care Patient Panel.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Although screenings for breast and colorectal cancer are widely recommended, patient screening rates vary greatly and remain below public health targets, and primary care physicians' (PCPs') counseling and referrals play critical roles in patients' use of cancer screenings. Recent adverse events may influence PCPs' decision-making, but it remains unknown whether cancer screening rates of PCPs' patients change after PCPs are exposed to new cancer diagnoses.

Objective

To investigate whether PCPs' exposures to patients with new diagnoses of breast or colorectal cancer were associated with changes in screening rates for other patients subsequently visiting the affected PCPs.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used stacked difference-in-differen

SUBMITTER: Wang AZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9287757 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature