Best Ways to Provide Feedback to Radiologists on Mammography Performance
- 1 July 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Roentgen Ray Society in American Journal of Roentgenology
- Vol. 193 (1) , 157-164
Abstract
OBJECTIVE. The Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992 required a minimum performance audit of radiologists performing mammography. Since then, no studies have evaluated radiologists' perceptions of their audit reports, such as which performance measures are the most or least useful, or what the best formats are to present performance data.MATERIALS AND METHODS. We conducted a qualitative study with focus groups and interviews of 25 radiologists currently practicing mammography. All radiologists practiced at one of three sites in the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC). The discussion guide included open-ended questions to elicit opinions on the following subjects: the most useful performance outcome measures, examples of reports and formats that are easiest to understand (e.g., graphs or tables), thoughts about comparisons between individual-level and aggregate data, and ideas about additional performance measures they would find useful. All discussions were tape-recorded and transcribed. We d...Keywords
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