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Screening mammograms by community radiologists: Variability in false-positive rates (2002)
| Venue: | Journal of the National Cancer Institute |
| Citations: | 11 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Elmore02screeningmammograms,
author = {Joann G. Elmore and Diana L. Miglioretti and Lisa M. Reisch and Mary B. Barton and William Kreuter and Cindy L. Christiansen and Suzanne W. Fletcher},
title = {Screening mammograms by community radiologists: Variability in false-positive rates},
journal = {Journal of the National Cancer Institute},
year = {2002}
}
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Abstract
Background: Previous studies have shown that the agree-ment among radiologists interpreting a test set of mammo-grams is relatively low. However, data available from real-world settings are sparse. We studied mammographic examination interpretations by radiologists practicing in a community setting and evaluated whether the variability in false-positive rates could be explained by patient, radiologist, and/or testing characteristics. Methods: We used medical records on randomly selected women aged 40–69 years who had had at least one screening mammographic examination in a community setting between January 1, 1985, and June 30, 1993. Twenty-four radiologists interpreted 8734 screen-ing mammograms from 2169 women. Hierarchical logistic regression models were used to examine the impact of pa-tient, radiologist, and testing characteristics. All statistical
