Primary Care Physicians' Perceived Barriers to Follow-Up of Abnormal Mammogram Results: Opportunities for Systems-Level Interventions

Sarah J Flynn¹, Jennifer Livaudais-Toman^{2

3}, Celia P Kaplan^{2

3}, Karla Kerlikowske^{4

5}, Nancy J Burke^{6

7}, Sarita Pathak^{2

8}, Leah S Karliner^{9

10}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1545 Divisadero, Box 0320, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0320, USA.
³ Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁴ Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁵ General Internal Medicine Section, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁶ Department of Public Health, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, USA.
⁷ Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁸ Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA.
⁹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1545 Divisadero, Box 0320, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0320, USA. Leah.karliner@ucsf.edu.
¹⁰ Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Leah.karliner@ucsf.edu.

Sarah J Flynn et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 May.

. 2023 May;38(7):1786-1788.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-022-07967-7. Epub 2022 Nov 30.

Sarah J Flynn¹, Jennifer Livaudais-Toman^{2

3}, Celia P Kaplan^{2

3}, Karla Kerlikowske^{4

5}, Nancy J Burke^{6

7}, Sarita Pathak^{2

8}, Leah S Karliner^{9

10}

¹ Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1545 Divisadero, Box 0320, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0320, USA.
³ Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁴ Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁵ General Internal Medicine Section, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁶ Department of Public Health, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, USA.
⁷ Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁸ Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA.
⁹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1545 Divisadero, Box 0320, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0320, USA. Leah.karliner@ucsf.edu.
¹⁰ Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Leah.karliner@ucsf.edu.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they do not have a conflict of interest.

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