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Effect of breast augmentation on the accuracy of mammography and cancer characteristicsDiana L Miglioretti
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash 98101, USA
JAMA 291:442-50. 2004..Breast augmentation is not associated with an increased risk of breast cancer; however, implants may interfere with the detection of breast cancer thereby delaying cancer diagnosis in women with augmentation...
Accuracy of screening mammography varies by week of menstrual cycleDiana L Miglioretti
Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, 1730 Minor Ave, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Radiology 258:372-9. 2011..To investigate sensitivity, specificity, and cancer detection rate of screening mammography according to week of menstrual cycle among premenopausal women...
When radiologists perform best: the learning curve in screening mammogram interpretationDiana L Miglioretti
Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, 1730 Minor Ave, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Radiology 253:632-40. 2009..To examine changes in screening mammogram interpretation as radiologists with and radiologists without fellowship training in breast imaging gain clinical experience...
Latent transition regression for mixed outcomesDiana L Miglioretti
Group Health Cooperative, Center for Health Studies, 1730 Minor Ave Suite 1600, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA
Biometrics 59:710-20. 2003..We illustrate our approach with data from a longitudinal study of back pain...
Radiologist characteristics associated with interpretive performance of diagnostic mammographyDiana L Miglioretti
Group Health Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, 1730 Minor Ave, Ste 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 99:1854-63. 2007..Extensive variability has been noted in the interpretive performance of screening mammography; however, less is known about variability in diagnostic mammography performance...
Improvement in the diagnostic evaluation of a positive fecal occult blood test in an integrated health care organizationDiana L Miglioretti
Group Health Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA
Med Care 46:S91-6. 2008....
Marginal modeling of nonnested multilevel data using standard softwareDiana L Miglioretti
Group Health Center for Health Studies, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Am J Epidemiol 165:453-63. 2007..Performance with a small number of clusters is discussed. Both the simulations and the example demonstrate the importance of accounting for the correlation within all levels of clustering for proper inference...
Statistical approaches for modeling radiologists' interpretive performanceDiana L Miglioretti
Group Health Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Acad Radiol 16:227-38. 2009....
Variability in interpretive performance at screening mammography and radiologists' characteristics associated with accuracyJoann G Elmore
Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Ave, Box 359780, Seattle, WA 98104 2499, USA
Radiology 253:641-51. 2009..To identify radiologists' characteristics associated with interpretive performance in screening mammography...
Mammographic interpretive volume and diagnostic mammogram interpretation performance in community practiceSebastien Haneuse
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Radiology 262:69-79. 2012..To investigate the association between radiologist interpretive volume and diagnostic mammography performance in community-based settings...
Influence of annual interpretive volume on screening mammography performance in the United StatesDiana S M Buist
Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, 1730 Minor Ave, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Radiology 259:72-84. 2011..To examine whether U.S. radiologists' interpretive volume affects their screening mammography performance...
Disclosing harmful mammography errors to patientsThomas H Gallagher
Department of Medicine, and Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington, 4311 11th Ave NE, Suite 230, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Radiology 253:443-52. 2009..To assess radiologists' attitudes about disclosing errors to patients by using a survey with a vignette involving an error interpreting a patient's mammogram, leading to a delayed cancer diagnosis...
The impact of comorbidities on hormone use. After the 2000 release of the Women's Health InitiativeKatherine M Newton
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:350-6. 2005....
Biennial versus annual mammography and the risk of late-stage breast cancerEmily White
School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 96:1832-9. 2004..Mammography screening may reduce breast cancer mortality by detecting cancers at an earlier stage. However, certain questions remain, including the ideal interval between mammograms...
Radiologists' attitudes and use of mammography audit reportsJoann G Elmore
Division of General Internal Medicine, 325 Ninth Avenue, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Acad Radiol 17:752-60. 2010..The objectives of our study were to assess the content and style of audits and examine use of, attitudes toward, and perceptions of the value that radiologists' have regarding mandated medical audits...
Decreased accuracy in interpretation of community-based screening mammography for women with multiple clinical risk factorsAndrea J Cook
Biostatistics Unit, Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 63:441-51. 2010....
Recommendation for short-interval follow-up examinations after a probably benign assessment: is clinical practice consistent with BI-RADS guidance?Erin J Aiello Bowles
Group Health Research Institute, 1730 Minor Ave, Ste 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 194:1152-9. 2010..We evaluated predictors of discordance between probably benign assessments and short-interval follow-up recommendations...
Are radiologists' goals for mammography accuracy consistent with published recommendations?Sara L Jackson
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Washington, 325 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA 98104
Acad Radiol 19:289-95. 2012..Mammography quality assurance programs have been in place for more than a decade. We studied radiologists' self-reported performance goals for accuracy in screening mammography and compared them to published recommendations...
Defining menopausal status in epidemiologic studies: A comparison of multiple approaches and their effects on breast cancer ratesAmanda I Phipps
University of Washington, Epidemiology Department, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Health Sciences Building F 262, Box 357236, Seattle, WA 98195 7236, USA
Maturitas 67:60-6. 2010..This study assesses distinctions between menopausal status definitions using commonly collected epidemiologic data, and explores their impact on study outcomes using breast cancer rates as an example...
Accuracy of short-interval follow-up mammograms by patient and radiologist characteristicsErin J Aiello Bowles
Group Health Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, 1730 Minor Ave, Ste 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 190:1200-8. 2008..The purpose of our study was to examine the accuracy of short-interval follow-up mammograms and evaluate patient and radiologist characteristics associated with accuracy...
Cumulative probability of false-positive recall or biopsy recommendation after 10 years of screening mammography: a cohort studyRebecca A Hubbard
Group Health Cooperative and School of Public Health of the University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Ann Intern Med 155:481-92. 2011..False-positive mammography results are common. Biennial screening may decrease the cumulative probability of false-positive results across many years of repeated screening but could also delay cancer diagnosis...
A prognostic approach to defining chronic painMichael Von Korff
Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Center for Health Studies, 1730 Minor Avenue, Suite 1600, Seattle WA 98101, USA
Pain 117:304-13. 2005..Defining chronic pain prospectively, by risk thresholds for future clinically significant pain, provides an empirically grounded approach to chronic pain assessment...
Association between obesity and psychiatric disorders in the US adult populationGregory E Simon
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:824-30. 2006..Epidemiologic data suggest an association between obesity and depression, but findings vary across studies and suggest a stronger relationship in women than men...
Marginal modeling of multilevel binary data with time-varying covariatesDiana L Miglioretti
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, USA
Biostatistics 5:381-98. 2004..Implications of time-varying endogenous covariates are addressed. The methods are illustrated using data from the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium to estimate mammography accuracy from a repeatedly screened population...
Randomized trial of therapeutic massage for chronic neck painKaren J Sherman
Group Health Center for Health Studies, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Clin J Pain 25:233-8. 2009..A randomized controlled trial was conducted to evaluate whether therapeutic massage is more beneficial than a self-care book for patients with chronic neck pain...
Statin use and prostate cancer risk in a large population-based settingDenise M Boudreau
Group Health Center for Health Studies, 1730 Minor Ave, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Cancer Causes Control 19:767-74. 2008..Statins are a commonly used cholesterol-lowering drug, which also have the potential to affect cancer risk and progression. Results from previous studies offer mixed conclusions...
Accuracy of self-reported breast cancer among women undergoing mammographyLinn Abraham
Group Health Center for Health Studies, 1730 Minor Ave, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 118:583-92. 2009..There appears to be uncertainty surrounding breast findings such as DCIS and LCIS. These results have important implications for research relying on self-report and for patient communication and care...
A hierarchical non-homogenous Poisson model for meta-analysis of adenoma countsCarolyn M Rutter
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, 1730 Minor Ave, Ste 1600 Seattle WA 98101, USA
Stat Med 26:98-109. 2007..For 1990, the estimated adenoma prevalence among Americans at age 60 is 40.3 per cent for men compared to 29.2 per cent for women...
Statin use and breast cancer risk in a large population-based settingDenise M Boudreau
Group Health, Center for Health Studies, Suite 1600, 1730 Minor Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:416-21. 2007..Mechanistic studies suggest that 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl CoA inhibitors (statins) reduce the risk of breast cancer. Observational studies offer mixed results...
Self-detection remains a key method of breast cancer detection for U.S. womenMara Y Roth
University of Washington School of Medicin, eDepartment of Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195 7138, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 20:1135-9. 2011..This report describes patient characteristics and time trends for various methods of breast cancer detection in the United States...
Mammographic breast density, dense area, and breast area differences by phase in the menstrual cycleDiana S M Buist
Group Health Center for Health Studies, Suite 1600, 1730 Minor Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:2303-6. 2006..Mammographic breast density may be greater in the luteal phase (days 15-30) than the follicular phase (days 1-14) of the menstrual cycle; this may have implications for when mammography screening should occur...
Modelling the cumulative risk of a false-positive screening testRebecca A Hubbard
Group Health Research Institute, Biostatistics Unit and Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Stat Methods Med Res 19:429-49. 2010..The estimated risk of an FP recall after 10 screening mammograms varied between 58% and 77% depending on the approach used, with an estimate of 63% based on what we feel are the most reasonable modelling assumptions...
Chronic spinal pain and physical-mental comorbidity in the United States: results from the national comorbidity survey replicationMichael Von Korff
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, 1730 Minor Avenue Suite 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Pain 113:331-9. 2005..The societal burdens of chronic spinal pain need to be understood and managed within the context of comorbid conditions...
Statin use and female reproductive organ cancer risk in a large population-based settingOnchee Yu
Group Health Center for Health Studies, 1730 Minor Ave, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Cancer Causes Control 20:609-16. 2009..We evaluated the association between statin use and endometrial as well as ovarian cancer risks...
Evaluating risk factor assumptions: a simulation-based approachCarolyn M Rutter
Biostatistics Unit, Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 11:55. 2011..We propose a method for evaluating these risk factor assumptions as part of model-building...
Estimating the accuracy of psychological scales using longitudinal dataCarolyn M Rutter
Group Health Cooperative, Center for Health Studies, 1730 Minor Ave Ste 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Biostatistics 4:97-107. 2003..Using the proposed model, we estimate the accuracy of the Symptom Checklist as a measure of major depression from a repeatedly screened sample of patients...
Adverse events after screening and follow-up colonoscopyCarolyn M Rutter
Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Cancer Causes Control 23:289-96. 2012..We provide new information about how the risk of adverse events following colonoscopy varies by age and indication (screening vs. follow-up performed to evaluate a positive result from another screening modality)...
A trial of an activating intervention for chronic back pain in primary care and physical therapy settingsMichael Von Korff
Group Health Cooperative, Center for Health Studies, 1730 Minor Ave, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Pain 113:323-30. 2005....
Comparing yoga, exercise, and a self-care book for chronic low back pain: a randomized, controlled trialKaren J Sherman
Group Health Cooperative and University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Ann Intern Med 143:849-56. 2005..Chronic low back pain is a common problem that has only modestly effective treatment options...
Hormone therapy prescribing patterns in the United StatesDiana S M Buist
Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA
Obstet Gynecol 104:1042-50. 2004....
An assessment of the quality of mammography care at facilities treating medically vulnerable populationsL Elizabeth Goldman
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
Med Care 46:701-8. 2008..Whether mammography facilities that treat vulnerable women demonstrate lower quality of care than other facilities is unknown...
Screening mammograms by community radiologists: variability in false-positive ratesJoann G Elmore
Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle 98104, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 94:1373-80. 2002....
Association between breast density and subsequent breast cancer following treatment for ductal carcinoma in situE Shelley Hwang
Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco Cancer Center, 1600 Divisadero Avenue, B606 San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:2587-93. 2007..All subjects had an American College of Radiology Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) breast density measure recorded prior to diagnosis...
Genetic testing for hereditary colorectal cancer in children: long-term psychological effectsAnn Marie Codori
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Am J Med Genet A 116:117-28. 2003..Our findings should call for a multidisciplinary approach to genetic testing for children...
Effects of estrogen-only treatment in postmenopausal womenKarla Kerlikowske
JAMA 292:684-5; author reply 685-6. 2004
Recall and detection rates in screening mammographyBonnie C Yankaskas
Cancer 101:2710-1; author reply 2711-2. 2004
Prognostic characteristics of breast cancer among postmenopausal hormone users in a screened populationKarla Kerlikowske
San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, General Internal Medicine Section, 111A1, 4150 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
J Clin Oncol 21:4314-21. 2003..We determined the risk of breast cancer and tumor characteristics among current postmenopausal hormone therapy users compared with nonusers, by duration of use...
Physician predictors of mammographic accuracyRebecca Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, 1600 Divisadero St, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 97:358-67. 2005..The association between physician experience and the accuracy of screening mammography in community practice is not well studied. We identified characteristics of U.S. physicians associated with the accuracy of screening mammography...
Comparing the performance of mammography screening in the USA and the UKRebecca Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
J Med Screen 12:50-4. 2005..Efforts to improve mammographic screening in the USA should target lowering the recall rate without reducing the cancer detection rate...
Comparison of screening mammography in the United States and the United kingdomRebecca Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco 94115, USA
JAMA 290:2129-37. 2003..Screening mammography differs between the United States and the United Kingdom; a direct comparison may suggest methods to improve the practice...
Widespread pain as a risk factor for dysfunctional temporomandibular disorder painMike Torsten John
Department of Prosthodontics, Martin Luther University, Halle Wittenberg, Grosse Steinstrasse 19, 06097 Halle Saale, Germany
Pain 102:257-63. 2003....
Modeling the dissemination of mammography in the United StatesKathleen A Cronin
Statistical Research and Applications Branch, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Applied Research Branch, National Cancer Institute NIH, MSC 8317, Suite 504, 6116 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892 7359, USA
Cancer Causes Control 16:701-12. 2005..This paper presents a methodology for piecing together disparate data sources to obtain a comprehensive model for the use of mammography screening in the US population for the years 1975-2000...
Changes in newspaper coverage about hormone therapy with the release of new medical evidenceJennifer S Haas
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120 1613, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:304-9. 2006..Differential coverage by lay newspapers may have contributed to the differential impact...
Does utilization of screening mammography explain racial and ethnic differences in breast cancer?Rebecca Smith-Bindman
University of California and San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94115, USA
Ann Intern Med 144:541-53. 2006..Reasons for persistent differences in breast cancer mortality rates among various racial and ethnic groups have been difficult to ascertain...
Does practice make perfect when interpreting mammography? Part IIJoann G Elmore
J Natl Cancer Inst 95:250-2. 2003
Factors associated with imaging and procedural events used to detect breast cancer after screening mammographyPatricia A Carney
Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 188:385-92. 2007..The purpose of this study was to characterize the type and frequency of diagnostic evaluations after screening mammography and to summarize their association with the likelihood of biopsy and subsequent breast cancer diagnosis...
Longitudinal measurement of clinical mammographic breast density to improve estimation of breast cancer riskKarla Kerlikowske
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 99:386-95. 2007..Whether a change over time in clinically measured mammographic breast density influences breast cancer risk is unknown...
Individual and combined effects of age, breast density, and hormone replacement therapy use on the accuracy of screening mammographyPatricia A Carney
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, 1 Medical Center Drive, HB 7925, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
Ann Intern Med 138:168-75. 2003..The relationships among breast density, age, and use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in breast cancer detection have not been fully evaluated...
Reactions to uncertainty and the accuracy of diagnostic mammographyPatricia A Carney
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover and Lebanon, NH, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:234-41. 2007..Reactions to uncertainty in clinical medicine can affect decision making...
Breast cancer detection rate: designing imaging trials to demonstrate improvementsYulei Jiang
Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC2026, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Radiology 243:360-7. 2007..To estimate the extent of variability in screening mammography cancer detection rates and its effect on a hypothetical clinical trial of a new screening modality used to measure changes in cancer detection rate...
Declines in invasive breast cancer and use of postmenopausal hormone therapy in a screening mammography populationKarla Kerlikowske
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 99:1335-9. 2007....
Demographic factors, denture status and oral health-related quality of lifeMike T John
Department of Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Leipzig, Germany
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 32:125-32. 2004..This study investigated the association between denture status, demographic factors, and oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL)...
Oral health-related quality of life in GermanyMike T John
Department of Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle Saale, Germany
Eur J Oral Sci 111:483-91. 2003..For subjects with removable dentures the scores were 15 and 60 points, respectively, and for subjects with complete dentures, 23 and 85 points, respectively. The results provide the first overview of impaired OHRQoL in Germany...
Performance benchmarks for diagnostic mammographyEdward A Sickles
Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, 1600 Divisadero St, Rm H 2801, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
Radiology 235:775-90. 2005....
Cortical sites critical for speech discrimination in normal and impaired listenersDana F Boatman
Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
J Neurosci 25:5475-80. 2005..These results demonstrate that individual differences in speech recognition abilities are reflected in the underlying cortical representations...
German short forms of the Oral Health Impact ProfileMike T John
Department of Prosthodontics and Materials Science, School of Dentistry, University of Leipzig, Germany
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 34:277-88. 2006..We report the development and psychometric evaluation of short forms of the Oral Health Impact Profile German version (OHIP-G) - an instrument to assess oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL)...
Average household exposure to newspaper coverage about the harmful effects of hormone therapy and population-based declines in hormone therapy useJennifer S Haas
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02120 1613, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:68-73. 2007..The news media facilitated the rapid dissemination of the findings from the estrogen plus progestin therapy arm of the Women's Health Initiative (EPT-WHI)...
Physician workload in mammographyRebecca Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, China Basin Landing, 185 Berry St, STE 350, Lobby 7, Campus Box 0946, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 190:526-32. 2008..The purpose of our study was to estimate per-physician annual volumes of mammography interpretation...
Research Grants
- Statistical Coordinating Center for the Breast Cancer Surveillance ConsortiumDiana Miglioretti; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
