Trends in Breast Cancer Screening in a Safety-Net Hospital During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ana I Velazquez; Jessica H Hayward; Blake Gregory; Niharika Dixit

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.19929

Trends in Breast Cancer Screening in a Safety-Net Hospital During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Aug 2;4(8):e2119929. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.19929.

Authors

Ana I Velazquez^{1

2}, Jessica H Hayward³, Blake Gregory⁴, Niharika Dixit^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
² National Clinician Scholars Program, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco.
³ Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco.
⁴ San Francisco Health Network, San Francisco, California.
⁵ Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study uses electronic health record data to evaluate the association between COVID-19 and breast cancer screening at an urban integrated health system’s safety-net hospital between September 2019 and January 2021.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Breast Neoplasms / diagnosis*
COVID-19*
Cross-Sectional Studies
Early Detection of Cancer / trends*
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Safety-net Providers

Grants and funding

P30 AG015272/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States