How the health care system can improve mammography-screening rates for underserved women: A closer look at the health care delivery system Article

Ahmed, NU, Fort, JG, Micah, TH et al. (2001). How the health care system can improve mammography-screening rates for underserved women: A closer look at the health care delivery system . 24(3), 17-26. 10.1097/00004479-200107000-00005

cited authors

  • Ahmed, NU; Fort, JG; Micah, TH; Belay, Y

authors

abstract

  • The way care is delivered has dramatic impact on the patient-provider interaction and the outcomes experienced by the patient. This article explores a deceptively simple but very powerful method for evaluating and improving care delivery. Mammography is a routine screening procedure. However, many factors can influence how frequently women seek and obtain mammograms. Twenty-five low-income women identified empowering factors and barriers they experienced when trying to obtain a mammogram.

publication date

  • January 1, 2001

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

start page

  • 17

end page

  • 26

volume

  • 24

issue

  • 3