Open AccessWomen’s Preferences for Specialists Who Provide Cancer Screening and General Medical Care. ANNOUNCEMENT
Author(s) -
Pemberton Anne G.,
Margolis Karen L.,
Mink Pamela J.,
McGovern Paul G.,
Lurie Nicole
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of general internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.746
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 1525-1497
pISSN - 0884-8734
DOI - 10.1046/j.1525-1497.1998.00186.x
Subject(s) - medicine , family medicine , cancer screening , medline , medical care , cancer , political science , law
In order to determine what types of specialists women prefer for medical care, we examined responses from a cross‐sectional survey of adult female patients in a health plan of the independent practice association model in the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area ( n = 1,204). The response rate for the survey was 90%. The women expressing a preference (60% of responders) overwhelmingly preferred to see obstetrician‐gynecologists for their breast examinations and Pap smears and strongly preferred family physicians or internists for the remainder of their cancer screening and general medical care. Thus, the majority of women expressed preferences for physicians of different specialties to provide their medical care.