{"id":4343,"date":"2015-09-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icesontario.wpengine.com\/journal-articles\/the-association-between-visiting-a-primary-care-provider-and-the-uptake-of-periodic-mammograms-as-women-get-older\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T19:50:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T23:50:35","slug":"the-association-between-visiting-a-primary-care-provider-and-the-uptake-of-periodic-mammograms-as-women-get-older","status":"publish","type":"journal_article","link":"https:\/\/www.ices.on.ca\/fr\/publications\/journal-articles\/the-association-between-visiting-a-primary-care-provider-and-the-uptake-of-periodic-mammograms-as-women-get-older\/","title":{"rendered":"The association between visiting a primary care provider and the uptake of periodic mammograms as women get older"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Objective<\/strong> &#x2014; To determine whether visits to a primary care provider (PCP) are associated with the uptake of periodic mammograms as women get older.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Methods<\/strong> &#x2014; The cohort consisted of female residents from Ontario, Canada, who were age 50 to 79 at any point from January 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2001 to December 31<sup>st<\/sup>, 2010. All women had to be cancer-free and eligible for the Ontario Health Insurance Plan prior to study entry. A non-parametric estimation approach was used to describe the mean cumulative number of periodic mammograms for women, with and without recent exposure to a PCP, as a function of age. Using age as the time scale, a recurrent event regression model was also implemented to examine the association between exposure to a primary care provider and rate of periodic mammograms, adjusted for income quintile and comorbidity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results<\/strong> &#x2014; The cohort consisted of 2,389,889 women with a mean observation window of 7.0 years. The uptake of periodic mammograms was significantly higher for women with recent exposure to a PCP compared to women without recent exposure to a PCP. This trend remained consistent as women aged, and the magnitude of the association increased for women 65 years or older. Moreover, the relative rate of periodic mammograms was lower than 1 and consistently decreased as we compared women from the lower income quintiles against women from the wealthiest income quintile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong> &#x2014; Visits to a primary care provider play an important role in a women&#x2019;s uptake of periodic mammograms, and this association increases as women get older.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objective &#x2014; To determine whether visits to a primary care provider (PCP) are associated with the uptake of periodic mammograms as women get older. Methods &#x2014; The cohort consisted of female residents from Ontario, Canada, who were age 50 to 79 at any point from January 1st, 2001 to December 31st, 2010. All women had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","migration-helper-automated":[],"migration-manual":[],"topic":[28,35,21],"migration-helper-qa-sample-set":[],"class_list":["post-4343","journal_article","type-journal_article","status-publish","hentry","topic-primary-care","topic-public-health","topic-women-or-gender-based-research"],"acf":{"citation":"Sutradhar R, Gu S, Glazier RH, Paszat LF; Ontario Cancer Screening Research Network. <em>J Med Screen<\/em>. 2016; 23(2):83-8. 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