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Telephone reminders increase re-screening in a county breast screening program.

Anupam Goel¹, Julie George, Robert C Burack

¹Medical Group Quality, Safety and Decision Support, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA 92103, USA. angoel@ucsd.edu

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

|May 13, 2008

Summary

A telephone reminder significantly increased breast cancer re-screening rates in a county program. This simple intervention improved re-enrollment and subsequent screening participation for women.

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Area of Science:

Public Health
Preventive Medicine
Oncology

Background:

Routine mammography screening reduces breast cancer mortality.
County programs aim to increase screening participation.
Interventions are needed to improve re-screening rates.

Purpose of the Study:

To test a telephone reminder intervention to increase re-screening in a county breast screening program.
To compare re-enrollment and re-screening rates between intervention and control groups.

Main Methods:

Randomized controlled trial comparing telephone reminders to postcard reminders for re-enrollment.
Participants were women previously screened by the county program.
Follow-up on re-enrollment and re-screening rates at one, two, five, and six months.

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Main Results:

The intervention group showed significantly higher initial re-enrollment (24% vs. 10%) and re-screening (19% vs. 11%) rates at one and two months, respectively.
These improvements persisted over time, with higher five-month re-enrollment (35% vs. 24%) and six-month re-screening (31% vs. 23%) rates.
The intervention did not affect the likelihood of being re-screened once re-enrolled.

Conclusions:

A simple telephone reminder intervention effectively increases re-enrollment and re-screening rates in county breast screening programs.
The observed increase in re-screening rates is comparable to or exceeds those reported in other studies.
Telephone reminders represent a feasible strategy to enhance participation in breast cancer screening programs.