Researchers led by Garth Rauscher, PhD, from the University of Illinois at Chicago found that racial and ethnic minority patients were more likely to experience treatment delay and less likely to have a sentinel node biopsy or report being recommended for hormone therapy. These analyses are the first that we are aware of to examine whether access to accredited versus nonaccredited facilities at initial presentation might influence later medical events during diagnosis and treatment, the team wrote.
Hospitals that have fewer resources are often designated by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as disproportionate share hospitals. Researchers say these hospitals serve a disproportionate number of low-income patients and provide a substantial amount of uncompensated care.
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One of the things that feels the weirdest about having done the same job, having been in the same specialty, for a longer and longer time is that you frequently feel, as the late, great Yogi Berra would have put it, déjà vu all over again. This is particularly true in science and medicine, where the same issues come up again and again and again, often with the same arguments on either side. Sometimes the same players are even involved. So it is with mammography recommendations.
Catching More Breast Cancers When Mammograms are Limited
New study calculates risk-based approach to detect cancers with fewest exams
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April 1, 2021 While the COVID-19 crisis is challenging, the pandemic is also giving researchers an opportunity to discover new approaches to saving lives. A study published in the
JAMA Network Open on Thursday, March 25, 2021, recommends a new way for triaging mammogram patients during times of limited capacity, such as pandemic surges, when individuals may also experience anxiety about COVID-19.
In one of the largest studies of its kind, the researchers looked at nearly 900,000 individuals and close to 2 million mammograms between 2014-2019 at more than 90 radiology facilities in the national Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium. They found that a risk-based algorithm, based on clinical indication, breast symptoms, breast cancer history and age, successfully maximized cancer detection.
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