Variation in Mammographic Breast Density Assessments among Radiologists in Clinical Practice: A Multicenter Observational Study

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 457-464

  Sprague, Brian L ^a   Conant, Emily F ^b   Onega, Tracy ^c   Garcia, Michael P ^d   Beaber, Elisabeth F ^d   Herschorn, Sally D ^a   Lehman, Constance D ^e   Tosteson, Anna N A ^c   Lacson, Ronilda ^f   Schnall, Mitchell D ^b   Kontos, Despina ^b   Haas, Jennifer S ^f   Weaver, Donald L ^g   Barlow, William E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST; BREAST DENSITY; CANCER CENTER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RADIOLOGIST; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOLOGISTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84990019746     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M15-2934     Document Type: Article

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