Effect of Massachusetts health insurance reform on mammography use and breast cancer stage at diagnosis
Keating NL, Kouri EM, He Y, West DW, Winer EP. Effect of Massachusetts health insurance reform on mammography use and breast cancer stage at diagnosis. Cancer 2012, 119: 250-258. PMID: 22833148, DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27757.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPropensity-weighted cohortsMammography ratesStage I breast cancerBehavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveyInsurance expansionStage I cancerI breast cancerBreast cancer stageCancer registry dataUse of mammographyRate of diagnosisRates of mammographyPropensity score analysisRates of uninsuranceHigher uninsurance ratesBreast cancer diagnosisHealth insurance expansionsI cancerCancer stageBreast cancerMammography useRegistry dataCalifornia womenMassachusetts womenDiagnosis