Quality Control in a National Program for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer: Women’s Satisfaction With the Mammography Process

Almog, Ronit; Hagoel, Lea; Tamir, Ada; Barnett, Ofra; Rennert, Gad

doi:10.1016/j.whi.2007.12.007

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Volume 18, Issue 2 , Pages 110-117, March 2008

Quality Control in a National Program for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer:

Women’s Satisfaction With the Mammography Process

Ronit Almog
- Ronit Almog, MD, MPH, is an epidemiologist. She directed the quality control project reported here at The Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center & The Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel. Her interests include cancer epidemiology, early detection of disease, and molecular epidemiology.
Lea Hagoel
- Lea Hagoel, PhD, is a medical sociologist at The Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center & The Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel. She is interested in adherence to breast and colorectal cancer screening, and in the interactions among scientific disciplines.
- Correspondence to: Dr Lea Hagoel, Carmel Medical Center, Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, 7 Michal Street, 34362 Haifa, Israel.
Ada Tamir
- Ada Tamir, DSc, is a biostatistician at The Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center & The Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel. She takes part in design and statistical analysis of projects related to community medicine and public health.
Ofra Barnett
- Ofra Barnett-Griness, PhD, is a biostatistician at The Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center & The Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel. Her activities include, among others, the application of regression models.
Gad Rennert
- Gad Rennert, MD, PhD, is Head of The Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center & The Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel. Professor Rennert is director of the Israeli National Program for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer, under the auspices of the Ministry of Health, and the Israeli Cancer Association.