Early Detection of Breast Cancer Using a Self-Referral Mammography Process: The Kaiser Permanente Northwest 20-Year History | Zendy

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Early Detection of Breast Cancer Using a Self-Referral Mammography Process: The Kaiser Permanente Northwest 20-Year History

Author(s) -

David Moiel,

John Thompson

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

the permanente journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.445

H-Index - 30

eISSN - 1552-5775

pISSN - 1552-5767

DOI - 10.7812/tpp/13-038

Subject(s) - medicine , referral , mammography , breast cancer , breast cancer screening , family history , population , cancer , malignancy , family medicine , gynecology , environmental health

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women in the Kaiser Permanente Northwest Region. Ninety-five percent of women later found to have breast cancer were seen an average of 5 times in the medical offices in the year preceding diagnosis. Until 1991, screening mammography depended on clinician ordering. However, 20% of at-risk women were left out of the process because they had no clinician visit in the preceding year. Self-referral mammography was introduced as one of a number of processes to provide more comprehensive screening.

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