Health
Risk-Based Approach Could Optimize Mammography During Crises – Diagnostic Imaging
Focusing on high-to-very high risk patients could provide the greatest cancer detection rate with the fewest exams during times of reduced capacity.
During public health emergencies, such as a global health crisis, prioritizing mammograms for women who have the highest likelihood of developing breast cancer can lead to the greatest cancer detection rate when capacity and resources are low.
From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, breast imaging facilities put all services except the most critical cases on hold, and determining which women still needed to be brought in for mammograms was a puzzle. But, now, a multi-institutional team of researchers…
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