Limitations of Minimally Acceptable Interpretive Performance Criteria for Screening Mammography
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Identifying minimally acceptable interpretive performance criteria for screening mammography.
PURPOSE To develop criteria to identify thresholds for minimally acceptable physician performance in interpreting screening mammography studies and to profile the impact that implementing these criteria may have on the practice of radiology in the United States. MATERIALS AND METHODS In an institutional review board-approved, HIPAA-compliant study, an Angoff approach was used in two phases to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0033-8419,1527-1315
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.101735