Markers of good performance in mammography depend on number of annual readings

Radiology

Volumn 269, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-67

  Rawashdeh, Mohammad A ^a   Lee, Warwick B ^b   Bourne, Roger M ^a   Ryan, Elaine A ^a   Pietrzyk, Mariusz W ^a   Reed, Warren M ^a   Heard, Robert C ^a   Black, Deborah A ^a   Brennan, Patrick C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CANCER INSTITUTE NSW   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANNUAL READING VOLUME; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; READER PERFORMANCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREVALENCE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84884693269     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13122581     Document Type: Article

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