Impact of the New Density Reporting Laws: Radiologist Perceptions and Actual Behavior

Academic Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 679-683

  Gur, David ^a   Klym, Amy H ^a   King, Jill L ^a   Bandos, Andriy I ^b   Sumkin, Jules H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast density; Mammography; Reporting; Screening

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTING; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BREAST; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST DENSITY NOTIFICATION ACT; BREAST IMAGING REPORTING AND DATA SYSTEM; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; LAW; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RATING SCALE; UNITED STATES; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MAMMARY GLAND; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOLOGY;

EID: 84929044943     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2015.02.009     Document Type: Article

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