title: Improving uptake of a breast screening programme: A knowledge management approach for opportunistic intervention.
abstract: Reducing mortality from breast cancer through screening has been accepted as a viable tool and breast screening has attracted a lot of attention from healthcare organisations worldwide. Government funded screening programmes in Europe, the Americas and Australia have made good progress in diagnosing and treating breast cancer through effective screening programmes. The UK's National Health Service (NHS) National Screening Programme manages one of the biggest publicly funded breast screening programmes. In the UK, only 75% of the intended population is screened and a diverse set of efforts has attempted to identify and initiate countermeasures to improve screening attendance. This paper identifies how innovative use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) can be the focus for strategising not only improved screening attendance but also better quality of care for women.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Computing and Engineering Technologies Applied Research Group (BIOCORE), Coventry University, UK.
authors.forename: Vikraman
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Baskaran
authors.forename: Rajeev K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Bali
authors.forename: Hisbel
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Arochena
authors.forename: Raouf N G
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Naguib
authors.forename: Margot
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wheaton
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wallis
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000465:Algorithms; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000517:prevention & control*; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D005103:Expert Systems; D005194:Family Practice / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom