Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Womens Health Issues. 2016 Oct 20;26(6):642–647. doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2016.09.003

Table 3.

Factors predicting the likelihood of receiving a biopsy within seven days of an abnormal mammogram, treatment within 21 days of a positive biopsy, and treatment within 28 days of an abnormal mammogram with a cancer diagnosis

Mammogram to Biopsy Biopsy to Treatment Mammogram to Treatment
Odds RatioŦ p Odds RatioŦ p Odds RatioŦ p
Age
≥ 75–84 yrs,
(<75 referent)		 0.814
(0.601–1.104)		 0.1855 1.021
(0.782–1.332)		 0.8795 0.957
(0.728–1.259)		 0.7544
Non-Hispanic
Black
(Non-Hispanic
White referent)		 1.132
(0.723–1.771)		 0.5877 0.906
(0.624–1.314)		 0.6020 1.165
(0.742–1.829)		 0.5067
One comorbid
condition (0 is
referent)		 0.866
(0.610–1.229		 0.4199 1.240
(0.912–1.685)		 0.1693 0.994
(0.717–1.376)		 0.9688
More than one
comorbid condition
(0 is referent)		 0.684
(0.422–1.108)		 0.1227 0.783
(0.486–1.261)		 0.3143 0.760
(0.478–1.209)		 0.2471
Depression
diagnosis
(none is referent)		 1.096
(0.722–1.663)		 0.6669 0.963
0.661–1.405)		 0.8455 1.004
(0.668–1.509)		 0.9835
Ŧ

The 95% confidence interval is in parentheses.