Preventive Services for Breast and Cervical Cancer in U.S. Office-Based Practices
| Autor: | Dwight B. Brock, Marcel E. Salive, Jack M. Guralnik |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Office Visits Epidemiology media_common.quotation_subject Private Practice Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Breast Neoplasms Medicare Medical care Preventive Health Services medicine Humans Mammography Physical Examination Pelvic examination Aged media_common Vaginal Smears Cervical cancer Office based medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Clinical breast examination Middle Aged medicine.disease Payment United States Fees and Charges Family medicine Insurance Health Reimbursement Ambulatory Female business Papanicolaou Test |
| Zdroj: | Preventive Medicine. 25:561-568 |
| ISSN: | 0091-7435 |
| DOI: | 10.1006/pmed.1996.0090 |
| Popis: | Background. This study was undertaken to examine patterns of delivery of preventive services for breast and cervical cancer and the bundling of several preventive services. Methods. Data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey on visits by women ages ≥45 years to office-based physicians during 1989 and 1990 were analyzed for delivery of clinical breast examination, mammography, breast self-examination counseling, pelvic examination, and Pap smear. Results. An estimated 38.7 million office visits included one or more preventive services for breast and cervical cancer (46.7 visits per 100 women per year). Visits that included clinical breast examination, Pap smear, and mammography together were largely provided by obstetricians and gynecologists, less by general/family practice and general internal medicine physicians, and rarely by subspecialists. Twenty-two percent of these visits were periodic preventive visits, lowest for subspecialists and highest for general internists. Major sources of payment included insurance and personal resources at younger ages and Medicare at ages ≥65. Conclusions. The periodic preventive visit has received only limited acceptance by physicians who provide preventive care for adult women. Payment for preventive visits changes with age and may affect the appropriate provision of services. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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