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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg Oncol. 2015 Aug 26;22(0 3):428–434. doi: 10.1245/s10434-015-4834-3

Table 4.

Factors associated with receipt of additional imaging

Patients with
Additional Imaging
(n=436)
Freq (%)
Patients without
Additional Imaging
(n=1,269)
Freq (%)
Adjusted OR
(95% CI)
P-value
Age
< 40 43 (9.8%) 63 (5.0%) 1.38 (0.88–2.16) 0.15
40–49 133 (30.5%) 295 (23.2%) 1.00 --
50–59 128 (29.4%) 319 (25.1%) 0.96 (0.71–1.29) 0.77
60–69 96 (22.0%) 375 (29.6%) 0.76 (0.54–1.08) 0.13
70 + 36 (8.3%) 217 (17.1%) 0.59 (0.35–0.99) 0.04
Race
White 352 (80.7%) 1,068 (84.2%) 1.00 --
Non-White 64 (14.7%) 155 (12.2%) 1.13 (0.80–1.60) 0.48
Missing 20 (4.6%) 46 (3.6%) 1.29 (0.74–2.25) 0.36
Language
English 416 (95.4%) 1,213 (95.6%) 1.00 --
Non-English 20 (4.6%) 56 (4.4%) 1.09 (0.61–1.95) 0.77
Insurance
Private 342 (78.4%) 817 (64.4%) 1.00 --
Medicaid 17 (3.9%) 41 (3.2%) 0.94 (0.51–1.73) 0.85
Medicare 72 (16.5%) 398 (31.4%) 0.65 (0.44–0.94) 0.02
Other 5 (1.2%) 13 (1.0%) 0.87 (0.30–2.52) 0.80
Stage*
0 33 (7.6%) 112 (8.8%) 1.00 --
I 214 (49.1%) 776 (61.2%) 0.96 (0.63–1.47) 0.86
II 142 (32.5%) 310 (24.4%) 1.47 (0.94–2.31) 0.09
III 44 (10.1%) 65 (5.1%) 1.99 (1.12–3.52) 0.02
IV 3 (0.7%) 6 (0.5%) 1.87 (0.43–8.17) 0.40
Surgery Type
Lumpectomy 252 (57.8%) 880 (69.3%) 1.00 --
Mastectomy 55 (12.6%) 151 (11.9%) 1.13 (0.79–1.61) 0.49
Mastectomy with Recon 129 (29.6%) 238 (18.8%) 1.37 (1.04–1.81) 0.02
*

Excluded patients for whom tumor stage was not readily available

OR odds ratio, CI 95% confidence interval