Participation behaviour following a false positive test in the Copenhagen mammography screening programme
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Participation behaviour following a false positive test in the Copenhagen mammography screening programme. / Andersen, Sune Bangsbøll; Vejborg, Ilse; von Euler-Chelpin, My.
I: Acta Oncologica, Bind 47, Nr. 4, 2008, s. 550-555.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Participation behaviour following a false positive test in the Copenhagen mammography screening programme
AU - Andersen, Sune Bangsbøll
AU - Vejborg, Ilse
AU - von Euler-Chelpin, My
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - INTRODUCTION: There is an ongoing debate concerning possible disadvantages of mammography screening, one being the consequence of receiving a false positive test-result. It is argued that receiving a false positive answer may have short- and/or long-term adverse psychological effects on women, but results from different studies are conflicting. We tested if there was a difference in continued participation behaviour between the group of women who have been subject to a false positive result and those who have not. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study used the registers from the first six invitation rounds of the mammography screening programme in Copenhagen (1991-2003). We estimated the relative risk of not participating in the subsequent screening round for women with a false positive test using women with a negative test as baseline. As outcome measure odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) were used. RESULTS: There was no significant difference in participation in the subsequent round between women with a false positive test and women with a negative test. The proportion of screens resulting in false positive answers, both after assessment and after surgery, decreased from 5.54% in Round 1 to 1.79% in Round 5. Participation in the subsequent screening round was well above 80% in all five screening rounds. DISCUSSION: Our results showed that women experiencing a false positive test at mammography screening participated in the subsequent screening round to the same extent as did women experiencing a negative screening test, regardless of whether the false positive statement was given following assessment or following surgery. The benign to malignant biopsy ratio, comparing the type B false positives to the true positives, was by the fifth round well below the desirable level of Udgivelsesdato: 2008
AB - INTRODUCTION: There is an ongoing debate concerning possible disadvantages of mammography screening, one being the consequence of receiving a false positive test-result. It is argued that receiving a false positive answer may have short- and/or long-term adverse psychological effects on women, but results from different studies are conflicting. We tested if there was a difference in continued participation behaviour between the group of women who have been subject to a false positive result and those who have not. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study used the registers from the first six invitation rounds of the mammography screening programme in Copenhagen (1991-2003). We estimated the relative risk of not participating in the subsequent screening round for women with a false positive test using women with a negative test as baseline. As outcome measure odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) were used. RESULTS: There was no significant difference in participation in the subsequent round between women with a false positive test and women with a negative test. The proportion of screens resulting in false positive answers, both after assessment and after surgery, decreased from 5.54% in Round 1 to 1.79% in Round 5. Participation in the subsequent screening round was well above 80% in all five screening rounds. DISCUSSION: Our results showed that women experiencing a false positive test at mammography screening participated in the subsequent screening round to the same extent as did women experiencing a negative screening test, regardless of whether the false positive statement was given following assessment or following surgery. The benign to malignant biopsy ratio, comparing the type B false positives to the true positives, was by the fifth round well below the desirable level of Udgivelsesdato: 2008
KW - Aged
KW - Biopsy, Fine-Needle
KW - Breast Neoplasms
KW - Denmark
KW - False Positive Reactions
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Mammography
KW - Mass Screening
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Patient Acceptance of Health Care
U2 - 10.1080/02841860801935483
DO - 10.1080/02841860801935483
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 18465321
VL - 47
SP - 550
EP - 555
JO - Acta Oncologica
JF - Acta Oncologica
SN - 1100-1704
IS - 4
ER -
ID: 10208689