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Alternative Title:
Am J Prev Med
Personal Author:
Cooper, Crystale Purvis ; Saraiya, Mona
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Description:
Background

Some primary care physicians choose not to provide cervical cancer screening.

Purpose

To investigate the characteristics and screening beliefs of family practitioners and internists who treat adult women in outpatient settings but perform no routine Pap tests.

Methods

A survey of U.S. primary care physicians (N = 892) was conducted and analyzed in 2012.

Results

Participants who performed no Pap tests during a typical month (17.2% of family practitioners and 44.3% of internists) generally reported that they referred patients to gynecologists for cervical cancer screening. The most significant predictor of Pap test non-provision was agreement that patients are best served by having Pap tests performed by gynecologists (AOR = 8.80, 95% CI = 5.58, 13.88, p < 0.001).

Conclusions

The perception that patients benefit from cervical cancer screening administered by gynecologists may deter screening in primary care settings, resulting in missed opportunities to offer screening to women who are never or rarely screened.


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Adult Early Detection Of Cancer Female Health Care Surveys Humans Male Mass Screening Middle Aged Papanicolaou Test Practice Patterns, Physicians' Primary Health Care Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Vaginal Smears
Source:
Am J Prev Med. 2014; 47(3):315-319.
Pubmed ID:
24953518
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC4515305
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
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urn:sha256:c8ebb9c169260fcb3b11578e5e95115093fd146dd4602fd5ffd92dbf8d0e6ace
Download URL:
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/32435/cdc_32435_DS1.pdf
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