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Using Electronic Health Records to Understand Pathways of Breast Cancer Screening and Care

Description

This project is designed to examine how appropriate use of informatics methods and in-depth knowledge of health care delivery can allow electronic health record data to expand our understanding of the pathway from screening to cancer diagnosis, and why patients choose certain treatments.

Primary mentors are Harold S. Luft, Ph.D., PAMFRI, and Andrea LaCroix, Ph.D., University of California San Diego.

Funder

NIH, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

Start Date

March 01, 2016

End Date

February 28, 2019

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