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Best Practices: Positioning

Friday, July 3, 2020

Patient Fears, Anxiousness, and Reaction to...

When a patient comes in for her exam, emotions may run high - whether it’s a first-time exam and fear of the unknown, a patient with a history of breast cancer, a patient who finds compression hard to tolerate, or maybe an elderly patient who has...

Best Practices: Positioning

Friday, September 27, 2019

The Strain of Being a Mammography...

Mammography Technologists are very dedicated to getting as much breast tissue as possible in the image knowing that cancers can often lurk at the chest wall. Their role in positioning the patient’s breast can be challenging with certain breast types...

Best Practices: Positioning

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Good to Great - Making the Bella Blankets...

Change can be hard on us as human beings. Whether it is change in our personal life or at our place of work, it's often a stretch outside our comfort zone. Change can be especially hard in mammography when you are considering a switch in products...

Best Practices: Positioning

Friday, November 23, 2018

Data Proving Weaknesses in Mammography...

In a review of one million mammographic studies, key weaknesses in positioning were found based on Volpara® Enterprise™ software that uses data points to determine quality metrics. The most common issues in positioning detected by Volpara Enterprise...

Best Practices: Positioning

Friday, July 20, 2018

The Elusive Inframammary Fold

A mammographer’s goal is to produce the best clinical images while providing the patient with a positive experience. The perfect image combines the science of imaging technology and the art of positioning. Mammography is considered one of the...

Best Practices: Positioning

Friday, January 5, 2018

Bella Blankets and Tissue Acquisition in...

People working in the healthcare field hope to provide better care to the patient population by delivering better outcomes, offering a better experience, and potentially to help save a life. Whether working in ED, the surgical suite, or even in...

Best Practices: Positioning

Friday, December 8, 2017

Capturing the Elusive Pectoralis Major in...

Did you know that 67% of all female breast cancers occur in the upper outer quadrant of the breast? Did you also know that the largest percentage of quality failures cited by the MQSA are due to poor positioning? In fact, according to the FDA's...

Best Practices: Positioning

Friday, September 29, 2017

MQSA EQUIP: Where Breast Imaging Facilities...

Nearly half of all breast imaging facilities undergoing their annual MQSA inspections were found to have at least one or more deficiencies related to the Enhancing Quality Using the Inspection Program (EQUIP)in the first six months after its launch....

Best Practices: Positioning

Friday, July 14, 2017

Are Your Corrective Actions Ready for EQUIP...

MQSA’s Enhancing Quality Using the Inspection Program (EQUIP) initiative prepares breast imaging facilities to address image quality on a continual basis and hold the lead interpreting physician and/or interpreting physician as the person...

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