Patients' reports of counseling on mammography screening by health-care providers--North Carolina, 1997.
Regular mammography screening combined with timely and appropriate treatment can reduce mortality from breast cancer by 30% in women aged 50-69 years and 16% in women aged 40-49 years. A physician's recommendation has been strongly associated with a patient having a mammogram. This report analyzes data collected during 1997 in North Carolina as part of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), which indicated that 23% of women aged > or =40 years who had had a routine physical examination during the 2 years preceding the survey did not recall having a discussion about mammography with a health-care provider.
D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003376:Counseling / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011939:Mental Recall; D009657:North Carolina; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors