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ArticleFamily medicine and community health2019

Lack of validity of self-reported mammography data.

Robert S Levine, Barbara J Kilbourne, Maureen Sanderson, Mary K Fadden, Maria Pisu, Jason L Salemi, Maria Carmenza Mejia de Grubb, Heather O'Hara, Baqar A Husaini, Roget J Zoorob and 1 more

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Article in Family medicine and community health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Robert S LevineDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Barbara J KilbourneDepartment of Sociology, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Maureen SandersonDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Mary K FaddenDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Maria PisuUniversity of Alabama School of Medicine at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Jason L SalemiDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Maria Carmenza Mejia de GrubbDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Heather O'HaraDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Baqar A HusainiDepartment of Sociology, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Roget J ZoorobDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Charles H HennekensCharles E Schmidt School of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
Baylor College of Medicine · USMeharry Medical College · USTennessee State University · USFlorida Atlantic University · USUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

Training/Education CoreP20MD000516 · NIMHD · MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE · PI LEVINE, ROBERT A · 2003 to 2013
$14.2M
NIMHD NIH HHS P20 MD000516
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This qualitative literature review aimed to describe the totality of peer-reviewed scientific evidence from 1990 to 2017 concerning validity of self-reported mammography. This review included articles about mammography containing the words accuracy, validity, specificity, sensitivity, reliability or reproducibility; titles containing self-report, recall or patient reports, and breast or 'mammo'; and references of identified citations focusing on evaluation of 2-year self-reports. Of 45 publications meeting the eligibility criteria, 2 conducted in 1993 and 1995 at health maintenance organisations in Western USA which primarily served highly educated whites provided support for self-reports of mammography over 2 years. Methodological concerns about validity of self-reports included (1) telescoping, (2) biased overestimates particularly among black women, (3) failure to distinguish screening and diagnostic mammography, and (4) failure to address episodic versus consistent mammography use. The current totality of evidence supports the need for research to reconsider the validity of self-reported mammography data as well as the feasibility of alternative surveillance data sources to achieve the goals of the Healthy People Initiative.

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narrative reviewself-reported mammography

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PMID32148699
PMCPMC6910732
OpenAlexW2917879319

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