• Am J Prev Med · Sep 2014

    Opting out of cervical cancer screening: physicians who do not perform pap tests.

    • Crystale Purvis Cooper and Mona Saraiya.
    • Soltera Center for Cancer Prevention and Control, Tucson, Arizona.
    • Am J Prev Med. 2014 Sep 1; 47 (3): 315319315-9.

    BackgroundSome primary care physicians choose not to provide cervical cancer screening.PurposeTo investigate the characteristics and screening beliefs of family practitioners and internists who treat adult women in outpatient settings but perform no routine Pap tests.MethodsA survey of U.S. primary care physicians (N=892) was conducted and analyzed in 2012.ResultsParticipants who performed no Pap tests during a typical month (17.2% of family practitioners and 44.3% of internists) generally reported that they referred patients to gynecologists for cervical cancer screening. The most significant predictor of Pap test non-provision was agreement that patients are best served by having Pap tests performed by gynecologists (AOR=8.80, 95% CI=5.58, 13.88, p<0.001).ConclusionsThe perception that patients benefit from cervical cancer screening administered by gynecologists may deter screening in primary care settings, resulting in missed opportunities to offer screening to women who are never or rarely screened.Copyright © 2014 American Journal of Preventive Medicine. All rights reserved.

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