Physician Nonadherence to Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines

Physicians' screening recommendations don't always reflect the guidelines they trust the most.

Breast cancer screening guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG; NEJM JW Womens Health Aug 2011 and Obstet Gynecol 2011; 118:372), the American Cancer Society (ACS; NEJM JW Gen Med Dec 1 2015 and JAMA 2015; 314:1599), and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF; NEJM JW Gen Med Feb 1 2016 and Ann Intern Med 2016; 164:279) disagree on the age at which to begin and discontinue routine screening mammography. To assess whether physicians' screening recommendations reflect these differences, investigators examined national survey data from 871 primary care physicians (i.e., family medicine and general practice physicians, internists, and gynecologists).

More than 80% of physicians recommended screenin…

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Thomas L. Schwenk, MD

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Thomas L. Schwenk, MD

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Physician Nonadherence to Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines

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