1. Impact of general practitioners' sex and age on systematic recommendation for cancer screening
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Jean-François Morère, Yvan Coscas, François Eisinger, Jean-Yves Blay, Xavier Pivot, Jérôme Viguier, Anne Calazel-Benque, Claire Roussel, Sciences Economiques et Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de l'Information Médicale (SESSTIM - U912 INSERM - Aix Marseille Univ - IRD), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Service d'Oncologie Médicale [CHRU Besançon], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Besançon (CHRU Besançon)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Clinique de la Porte de St Cloud, Institut national cancer (INCA), INCA, Capio Clinique du Parc, E11, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon (UNICANCER/CRCL), Centre Léon Bérard [Lyon]-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre Léon Bérard [Lyon]-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ROCHE SAS, Roche SAS, Hôpital Avicenne [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
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Male ,MESH: Carcinoma ,Oncology ,Cancer Research ,Epidemiology ,Colorectal cancer ,Breast cancer screening ,Prostate cancer ,0302 clinical medicine ,Cancer screening ,Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Referral and Consultation ,Early Detection of Cancer ,MESH: Aged ,Sex Characteristics ,MESH: Middle Aged ,MESH: Directive Counseling ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Age Factors ,Middle Aged ,MESH: Interviews as Topic ,MESH: General Practitioners ,3. Good health ,Prostate cancer screening ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Female ,France ,MESH: Sex Characteristics ,Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Directive Counseling ,[SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer ,Interviews as Topic ,MESH: Referral and Consultation ,03 medical and health sciences ,General Practitioners ,Internal medicine ,Humans ,MESH: Early Detection of Cancer ,Patient participation ,Aged ,MESH: Age Factors ,MESH: Humans ,business.industry ,Carcinoma ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Prostatic Neoplasms ,Cancer ,MESH: Adult ,Odds ratio ,medicine.disease ,MESH: Male ,MESH: France ,MESH: Prostatic Neoplasms ,business ,MESH: Female - Abstract
International audience; Characteristics of primary-care providers have been associated with their patients' participation in breast cancer screening. A nationwide observational survey, 'EDIFICE', was conducted by telephone from December 2007 to January 2008 on a representative sample of 600 general practitioners (GPs) working in France, to investigate how a GP's characteristics may influence patient participation in screening for breast, colorectal and prostate cancer. For breast cancer screening, systematic recommendation was associated with female physicians [odds ratio (OR) =1.9; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.2-3.1]. This systematic recommendation was also correlated with systematic referral for colorectal cancer (OR=1.5; 95% CI=1.0-2.5) and prostate cancer screening (OR=2.7; 95% CI=1.8-4.1). For colorectal cancer screening, the sex of the GP had no significant impact. However, systematic recommendation for both breast and prostate cancer screening was shown to be associated with systematic recommendation for colorectal cancer screening (OR=2.7; 95% CI=1.6-4.7 and OR=1.8; 95% CI=1.1-3.0, respectively). For prostate cancer screening, there was no significant sex specificity. However, systematic recommendation for both breast and colorectal cancer screening was associated with an advice on prostate cancer screening (OR=2.9; 95% CI=2.0-4.4 and OR=2.0; 95% CI=1.3-3.2, respectively). The age of the GP was not associated with a higher rate of systematic recommendation for screening for the three types of cancer. Male GPs were more likely than female GPs to perform digital rectal examinations on male patients (69 vs. 54%; OR=1.86; 95% CI=1.31-2.63). There is a global pattern of physicians being screening-prone (as suggested by the cross impact of recommendations from one cancer type to another). Although the frequency of systematic recommendation for breast cancer screening is higher with female GPs, systematic recommendation for prostate cancer is not higher among male GPs. The factors associated with systematic recommendation for screening are both a matter of concern and a target for action, to improve adherence of individuals through GP commitment.
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- 2011
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