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[quote=Anonymous]It 100% matters where you get a mammogram done.

From the technologists positioning

To the training and experience of the radiologists.

To the daily practice patterns of the radiologist.

Can make a HUGE difference in the quality of read and cancer detection rates.

Is your radiologist interpreting your exam fellowship trained? This is very important- having a MSK or neuro rad interpreting your study is not ideal no matter how experienced they are.

Did you radiologist do breast fellowship at MD Anderson or Sloan Kettering learning for 30 different attendings and leaders of the field? Or did they do breast fellowship at a community hospital from 3 attending who all trained at the same place? (Obviously the former is generally better)

Is your radiologist doing diagnostic interpretations as well as biopsies? And getting constant feedback on what things look like?

Is your radiologist looking at your screen in a dark room uninterrupted and batch reading or are they doing screens “between cases” like diags and biopsies. Batch reading is better.

Additionally some places have internal review and QC double read processes. Others don’t.

The variability in quality is wide.

That being said usually large academic hospitals do a decent job. Washington Radiology also seems to have fellowship trained rads from good and varied training programs institutions (NYU, Pitt, GWU). [/quote]

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