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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2012 Mar;50(3):210–216. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3182407c8a

Table 1.

Diagnostic mammogram-level characteristics, stratified by composite vulnerability score of the facility at which the mammogram was performed.

Composite vulnerability scorea
Non-vulnerable (score = 0) Moderately vulnerable (score = 1 or 2) Highly vulnerable (score = 3 or 4)
N % N % N %
Total number of unique women served 41,231 19,454 8,476
Total number of diagnostic mammograms 48,033 21,195 9,505
Age group, years
 40 – 49 21,273 44.3 9,164 43.2 3,762 39.6
 50 – 59 14,513 30.2 6,321 29.8 2,754 29.0
 60 – 69 7,348 15.3 3,530 16.7 1,841 19.4
 70 – 80 4,899 10.2 2,180 10.3 1,148 12.1
Breast density
 1: Almost entirely fat 3,043 6.3 1,328 6.3 490 5.2
 2: Scattered fibroglandular densities 16,709 34.8 8,793 41.5 4,766 50.1
 3: Heterogeneously dense 22,635 47.1 8,726 41.2 3,370 35.5
 4: Extremely dense 5,646 11.8 2,348 11.1 879 9.3
Time since previous mammogram
 No previous mammogram 2,948 6.1 1,814 8.6 1,010 10.6
 < 12 months 15,897 33.1 7,540 35.6 2,597 27.3
 12 - 18 months 16,045 33.4 6,004 28.3 2,835 29.8
 19 - 30 months 7,002 14.6 2,891 13.6 1,411 14.8
 31 - 42 months 2,505 5.2 1,208 5.7 614 6.5
 43+ months 3,636 7.6 1,738 8.2 1,038 10.9
Mammography result
 Negative 43,703 91.0 18,776 88.6 8,419 88.6
 Positive 4,330 9.0 2,419 11.4 1,086 11.4
a

Composite vulnerability scores were calculated by adding 1 for each of the following vulnerability indices met: Education: < 83% of the facility population completed high school; Race/ethnicity: > 30% of the facility population are minorities; Rural/urban residence: average percentage of rural residences among the facility population is > 52%; and Income: average median household income among the facility population is < $45,000.