Experience with the European quality assurance guidelines for digital mammography systems in a national screening programme.
Radiat Prot Dosimetry
; 153(2): 223-6, 2013 Feb.
Article
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| ID: mdl-23173219
ABSTRACT
The transition to a fully digital breast screening programme, utilising three different full-field digital mammography (FFDM) systems has presented many challenges to the implementation of the European guidelines for physico-technical quality assurance (QA) testing. An analysis of the QA results collected from the FFDM systems in the screening programme over a 2-y period indicates that the three different systems have similar QA performances. Generally, the same tests were failed by all systems and failure rates were low. The findings provide some assurance that the QA guidelines are being correctly implemented. They also suggest that there is more scope for the development of the relevance of the guidelines with respect to modern FFDM systems. This study has also shown that a summary review of the QA data can be achieved by simple organisation of the QA data storage and by automation of data query and retrieval using commonly available software.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Temas:
Atencao_primaria_forma_integrada
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Garantia da Qualidade dos Cuidados de Saúde
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Mamografia
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Guideline
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Prognostic_studies
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Screening_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Radiat Prot Dosimetry
Ano de publicação:
2013
Tipo de documento:
Article