Adoption of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis in Clinical Practice

Ilana B Richman; Jessica R Hoag; Xiao Xu; Howard P Forman; Regina Hooley; Susan H Busch; Cary P Gross

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.1058

Adoption of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis in Clinical Practice

JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Sep 1;179(9):1292-1295. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.1058.

Authors

Ilana B Richman¹, Jessica R Hoag¹, Xiao Xu², Howard P Forman^{3

4}, Regina Hooley³, Susan H Busch⁴, Cary P Gross⁵

Affiliations

¹ Section of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
² Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
³ Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁴ Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁵ National Clinician Scholars Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

Abstract

This study uses administrative claims from an insurance database to examine adoption of digital breast tomosynthesis for cancer screening and describe regional patterns and sociodemographic characteristics associated with its use.

Grants and funding

UL1 TR001863/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States