Rebecca Smith-Bindman, Diana L. Miglioretti, Robert Rosenberg, Robert J. Reid, Stephen H. Taplin, Berta M. Geller, Karla Kerlikowske - the National Institutes of Health Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium
AJR 2008;190:526-532
http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/abstract/190/2/526
Doubling physician annual volume requirements would result in a small impact on overall mammography capacity. Increasing volume requirements to 2,000 mammography examinations annually would require a dramatic increase in the number of mammography examinations interpreted by the higher volume radiologists. Unless previously low-volume radiologists increased their volumes, raising requirements to 2,000 examinations could curtail access to mammography, particularly in rural areas
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