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ArticleClinical imaging2021

Patients characteristics related to screening mammography cancellation and rescheduling rates during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nita Amornsiripanitch, Sona A Chikarmane, Camden P Bay, Catherine S Giess

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  9. Mobile Mammography Services and Underserved Women.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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Nita AmornsiripanitchBrigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, United States of America. Electronic address: namornsiripanitch@partners.org.
Sona A ChikarmaneBrigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, United States of America. Electronic address: schikarmane@bwh.harvard.edu.
Camden P BayBrigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, United States of America. Electronic address: cpbay@bwh.harvard.edu.
Catherine S GiessCenter for Evidence-Based Imaging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1620 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02120, United States of America. Electronic address: cgiess@bwh.harvard.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo identify patient characteristics associated with screening mammography cancellations and rescheduling during the COVID-19 pandemic.

methodsScheduled screening mammograms during three time periods were retrospectively reviewed: state-mandated shutdown (3/17/2020-6/16/2020) during which screening mammography was cancelled, a period of 2 months immediately after screening mammography resumed (6/17/2020-8/16/2020), and a representative period prior to COVID-19 (6/17/2019-8/16/2019). Relative risk of cancellation before COVID-19 and after reopening was compared for age, race/ethnicity, insurance, history of chronic disease, and exam location, controlling for other collected variables. Risk of failure to reschedule was similarly compared between all 3 time periods.

resultsOverall cancellation rate after reopening was higher than before shutdown (7663/16595, 46% vs 5807/15792, 37%; p < 0.001). Relative risk of cancellation after reopening increased with age (1.20 vs 1.27 vs 1.36 for ages at 25th, 50th, and 75th quartile or 53, 61, and 70 years, respectively, p < 0.001). Relative risk of cancellation was also higher among Medicare patients (1.41) compared to Medicaid and those with other providers (1.26 and 1.21, respectively, p < 0.001) and non-whites compared to whites (1.34 vs 1.25, p = 0.03). Rescheduling rate during shutdown was higher than before COVID-19 and after reopening for all patients (10,658/13593, 78%, 3569/5807, 61%, and 4243/7663, respectively, 55%, p < 0.001). Relative risk of failure to reschedule missed mammogram was higher in hospitals compared to outpatient settings both during shutdown and after reopening (0.62 vs 0.54, p = 0.005 and 1.29 vs 1.03, p < 0.001, respectively).

conclusionMinority race/ethnicity, Medicare insurance, and advanced age were associated with increased risk of screening mammogram cancellation during COVID-19.

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Breast NeoplasmsCOVID-19AdultAgedEarly Detection of CancerFemaleHumansMammographyMass ScreeningMedicarePandemicsRetrospective StudiesSARS-CoV-2United StatesCOVID-19Healthcare disparityScreening mammogram

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PMID34340204
PMCPMC8320406

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