Association Between Physicians' Experiences With Members of Their Social Network and Efforts to Reduce Breast Cancer Screening

Craig Evan Pollack; Archana Radhakrishnan; Andrew M Parker; Xinwei Chen; Kala Visvanathan; Sarah A Nowak

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.6871

Association Between Physicians' Experiences With Members of Their Social Network and Efforts to Reduce Breast Cancer Screening

JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Jan 1;178(1):148-151. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.6871.

Authors

Craig Evan Pollack^{1

2

3}, Archana Radhakrishnan⁴, Andrew M Parker⁵, Xinwei Chen⁶, Kala Visvanathan^{3

7}, Sarah A Nowak⁸

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
⁵ RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
⁶ Division of General Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
⁷ Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁸ RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California.

Abstract

This survey study investigates whether physician experiences with members of their social network are associated with their recommendations for breast cancer screening.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Attitude of Health Personnel*
Breast Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Breast Neoplasms / epidemiology
Early Detection of Cancer*
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Morbidity / trends
Physicians / standards*
Practice Patterns, Physicians'*
Social Networking*
United States / epidemiology

Grants and funding

R21 CA194194/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States