Elena B Elkin

..Provisions of the federal healthcare reform law that eliminate cost sharing for selected preventive health services may improve access to screening mammography and prevent further declines in the rate of breast cancer screening...

..Patient navigation can increase colorectal cancer screening rates. The net economic impact of a colonoscopy patient navigator program was evaluated in an urban public hospital setting...

..To assess the impact of mammography capacity on appointment wait times...

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..Inadequate mammography resources in some areas may impair access to this technology. We assessed the relationship between availability of mammography machines and the use of screening...

..Several tests of varying accuracy and cost are available to identify candidates for trastuzumab. We estimated the cost-effectiveness of alternative HER-2 testing and trastuzumab treatment strategies...

..We compared rates of voluntary disenrollment from Medicare managed care to traditional fee-for-service Medicare among Medicare managed care enrollees with and without a cancer diagnosis...

..Shared decision making is a tenet of contemporary medicine and oncology practice. How involved elderly patients want to be in making treatment decisions and how physicians perceive patient preferences for such involvement are uncertain...

..Greater incorporation of decision-analytic techniques into urology research and clinical practice might improve decision making, and thereby improve patient outcomes...

..The objective of the current study was to characterize within-stage migration of tumor size in breast carcinoma, and to estimate the effect of this shift on reported breast carcinoma survival...

..We used a decision-analytic framework to evaluate tradeoffs between efficacy and quality of life in the choice between these treatments...

..Our goal was to assess the relationship between adjuvant chemotherapy use and survival in a large, population-based cohort of older women with hormone receptor (HR) -negative breast cancer...

..The objective of the current study was to identify factors associated with the receipt and type of treatment in a population-based cohort of older PCNSL patients...

..We evaluated how visits to specialists and primary care physicians (PCPs) by men with localized prostate cancer are related to treatment choice...

..The objectives of this study were to identify predictors of PLND and to assess the impact of surgical technique in a contemporary, population-based cohort...

..The objective of this study was to estimate the impact of ADT on thromboembolic events (TEs) in a population-based cohort...

..Most critically, decision curve analysis can be applied directly to a data set, and does not require the sort of external data on costs, benefits and preferences typically required by traditional decision analytic techniques...

..We sought to assess the use of staging laparoscopy for gastric adenocarcinoma in a cohort of older patients and to compare outcomes after laparoscopy alone with nontherapeutic laparotomy...

..The current study was conducted to evaluate the patterns of care and survival of older adults with oligodendroglioma (OLI) and astrocytoma (AST) from a large population-based registry...

..MRP with robotic assistance is generally more expensive than ORP, but it is not clear whether subsequent costs of care vary by approach...

..Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of measuring bone mineral density (BMD) before initiating ADT followed by alendronate therapy in men with localized prostate cancer...

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..Therefore, the objective was to develop a decision-analytic model to evaluate the relative benefits of surgery vs. observation in rectal cancer patients who achieve clinical complete response after neoadjuvant chemoradiation...

..The authors aimed to model the effects of the Adjuvant! decision aid on expected survival in women with early stage breast cancer. PATIENTS and..

..The aims of this study were to determine whether diabetes, hypertension, or other conditions influence survival and whether accounting for these conditions reduces this racial disparity...

..To evaluate the patterns of care in elderly glioblastoma (GBM) patients from a large population-based registry...

..The model is intended for use in analyzing a population of subjects who are undergoing lung cancer screening or receiving lung cancer chemoprevention, to determine whether the intervention has altered lung cancer mortality...

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..If decision analysis is used to counsel individual patients, careful consideration must be given to the method of preference elicitation...

..We compared laparoscopic prostatectomy with or without robotic assistance vs open radical prostatectomy in terms of postoperative outcomes and subsequent cancer directed therapy...

..The objective of our study was to assess the experiences and preferences of radiology residents with respect to breast imaging...

..For patients with nipple discharge (ND), surgical duct excision is often required to exclude underlying malignancy. Our objective was to define clinical predictors of malignancy and examine the utility of common preoperative studies...

..Urinary incontinence is a frequent complication of radical prostatectomy with a detrimental impact on quality of life. We identified predictors and trends in the use of procedures for post-prostatectomy incontinence...

..CONCLUSION: A comprehensive list of fellowship training opportunities in breast imaging may help potential applicants identify relevant programs...

..To compare characteristics and outcomes of breast cancer in women with and without a history of radiation therapy (RT) for Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL)...

..Although results from clinical trials suggest progress in the treatment of PCNSL, survival improvements are not reflected in this population-based cohort...

..028). Despite improved treatment for both diseases over the past decade, survival remains dismal in this cohort of Medicare/Medicaid beneficiaries with HIV-related PCNSL. These results may not apply to the general HIV population...

..We compared usual care (no antepartum testing or induction before 41 weeks), weekly testing at 37 weeks with induction after a positive test, and no testing with induction at 41 weeks...

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