Association of primary care physician sex with cervical cancer and mammography screening.
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OBJECTIVE To assess whether the sex of primary care physicians is associated with differing rates of cervical cancer and mammography screening in a contemporary multicultural context. DESIGN Structured medical record review of a retrospectively defined cohort. SETTING Academic urban primary care clinic in Montreal, Que. PARTICIPANTS Seven male physicians and 9 female physicians, and all female patients aged 14 to 69 years registered to one of the physicians (N = 1948). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Screening compliance rates as measured by the elapsed time between the last visit and cervical cancer screening for all women in the study. In addition, in women aged 50 to 69 years, elapsed time between the last visit and mammography screening. RESULTS Crude rates of Papanicolaou tests for patients of female primary care physicians were higher than for patients of male primary care physicians in all patient age groups. The lowest rates of Pap testing were among the youngest and oldest patients. After adjustment for patient age, first language, and region of birth, as well as physician age, the odds ratio of having a Pap test was 2.24 (95% CI 1.18 to 4.28) for the patients of female physicians, relative to those of male physicians. The adjusted odds ratio for mammography screening was 1.25 (95% CI 0.97 to 1.61) for patients of female physicians. CONCLUSION Male primary care physician sex is associated with lower rates of cervical cancer screening in an urban multicultural context. The study did not detect a physician sex effect in the mammography cohort.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien
دوره 59 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013