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Does utilization of screening mammography explain racial and ethnic differences in breast cancer?Rebecca Smith-Bindman
University of California and San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94115, USA
Ann Intern Med 144:541-53. 2006..Reasons for persistent differences in breast cancer mortality rates among various racial and ethnic groups have been difficult to ascertain...- Endovaginal ultrasound to exclude endometrial cancer and other endometrial abnormalitiesR Smith-Bindman
San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Department of Radiology, University of California, 94115, USA
JAMA 280:1510-7. 1998..Postmenopausal vaginal bleeding is a common clinical problem. Endovaginal ultrasound (EVUS) is a noninvasive diagnostic test that may help determine which women should undergo endometrial biopsy... 
Radiation dose associated with common computed tomography examinations and the associated lifetime attributable risk of cancerRebecca Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, 94115, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:2078-86. 2009..We sought to estimate the radiation dose associated with common CT studies in clinical practice and quantify the potential cancer risk associated with these examinations...- How thick is too thick? When endometrial thickness should prompt biopsy in postmenopausal women without vaginal bleedingR Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 24:558-65. 2004..The aim of this study was to determine an endometrial thickness threshold that should prompt biopsy in a postmenopausal woman without vaginal bleeding... - Second trimester prenatal ultrasound for the detection of pregnancies at increased risk of Down syndromeRebecca Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
Prenat Diagn 27:535-44. 2007..To determine the association between second trimester ultrasound findings (genetic sonogram) and the risk of Down syndrome... - Physician predictors of mammographic accuracyRebecca Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, 1600 Divisadero St, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 97:358-67. 2005..The association between physician experience and the accuracy of screening mammography in community practice is not well studied. We identified characteristics of U.S. physicians associated with the accuracy of screening mammography... - Comparing the performance of mammography screening in the USA and the UKRebecca Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
J Med Screen 12:50-4. 2005..Efforts to improve mammographic screening in the USA should target lowering the recall rate without reducing the cancer detection rate... 
Rising use of diagnostic medical imaging in a large integrated health systemRebecca Smith-Bindman
Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:1491-502. 2008..Cross-sectional studies added to existing studies instead of replacing them, and the annual per enrollee cost of radiology imaging more than doubled. The dramatic rise in imaging raises both costs and radiation exposure...- Can Medicare billing claims data be used to assess mammography utilization among women ages 65 and older?Rebecca Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
Med Care 44:463-70. 2006..Medicare data may be a useful source for determining the utilization of mammography among elderly women, but the accuracy of these data has not been established... - Diagnostic imaging rates for head injury in the ED and states' medical malpractice tort reformsRebecca Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Am J Emerg Med 29:656-64. 2011..We investigated the association between states' medical malpractice tort reforms and neurologic imaging rates for patients seen in the emergency department with mild head trauma... - Comparison of screening mammography in the United States and the United kingdomRebecca Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco 94115, USA
JAMA 290:2129-37. 2003..Screening mammography differs between the United States and the United Kingdom; a direct comparison may suggest methods to improve the practice... - Second-trimester ultrasound to detect fetuses with Down syndrome: a meta-analysisR Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, 1600 Divisadero St, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
JAMA 285:1044-55. 2001..Second-trimester prenatal ultrasound is widely used in an attempt to detect Down syndrome in fetuses, but the accuracy of this method is unknown... - Prenatal screening for Down syndrome in England and Wales and population-based birth outcomesRebecca Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco 94115, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 189:980-5. 2003..The purpose of this study was to relate pregnancy outcomes to the dominant method used for prenatal Down syndrome screening... - US evaluation of fetal growth: prediction of neonatal outcomesRebecca Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
Radiology 223:153-61. 2002..To determine whether fetal growth measured at serial ultrasonographic (US) examinations can predict neonatal morbidity, independent of whether gestational age is known... - Longitudinal measurement of clinical mammographic breast density to improve estimation of breast cancer riskKarla Kerlikowske
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 99:386-95. 2007..Whether a change over time in clinically measured mammographic breast density influences breast cancer risk is unknown... - Facility characteristics do not explain higher false-positive rates in diagnostic mammography at facilities serving vulnerable womenL Elizabeth Goldman
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Med Care 50:210-6. 2012..Facilities serving vulnerable women have higher false-positive rates for diagnostic mammography than facilities serving nonvulnerable women. False positives lead to anxiety, unnecessary biopsies, and higher costs... - Mammographic breast density and family history of breast cancerElad Ziv
Division of General Internal Medicine and Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 95:556-8. 2003..37, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.96 to 1.89; BI-RADS 3, OR = 1.70, 95% CI = 1.19 to 2.40; BI-RADS 4, OR = 1.70, 95% CI = 1.05 to 2.71). Thus, the genetic factors that determine breast density may determine breast cancer risk... - Breast cancer yield for screening mammographic examinations with recommendation for short-interval follow-upKarla Kerlikowske
Dept of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Univ of California, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
Radiology 234:684-92. 2005..To compare cancer yield for screening examinations with recommendation for short-interval follow-up after diagnostic imaging work-up versus after screening mammography only... - Positive predictive value of specific mammographic findings according to reader and patient variablesAruna Venkatesan
School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Ave, Room S 245, San Francisco, CA 94143 0454, USA
Radiology 250:648-57. 2009.... - Timeliness of follow-up after abnormal screening mammogram: variability of facilitiesRobert D Rosenberg
Department of Radiology, University of New Mexico HSC, 1 University of New Mexico, HSC 10 5530, Albuquerque, NM 87131 0001, USA
Radiology 261:404-13. 2011.... - Performance benchmarks for diagnostic mammographyEdward A Sickles
Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, 1600 Divisadero St, Rm H 2801, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
Radiology 235:775-90. 2005.... - Using clinical factors and mammographic breast density to estimate breast cancer risk: development and validation of a new predictive modelJeffrey A Tice
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 1732, USA
Ann Intern Med 148:337-47. 2008..Current models for assessing breast cancer risk are complex and do not include breast density, a strong risk factor for breast cancer that is routinely reported with mammography... - Adverse birth outcomes in relation to prenatal sonographic measurements of fetal sizeRebecca Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco 94115, USA
J Ultrasound Med 22:347-56; quiz 357-8. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: Morbidity and mortality are significantly increased among fetuses with an estimated fetal weight in the 5th percentile or less for gestational age... - Accuracy of diagnostic mammography at facilities serving vulnerable womenL Elizabeth Goldman
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Med Care 49:67-75. 2011..Whether accuracy of diagnostic mammography at facilities serving vulnerable women differs from other facilities is unknown... - Differences in screening mammography outcomes among White, Chinese, and Filipino womenKarla Kerlikowske
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:1862-8. 2005..The accuracy of screening mammography among Asian women in the United States has received little attention. We determined whether the accuracy of screening mammography for Chinese and Filipino women differs from that of white women... - Physician workload in mammographyRebecca Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, China Basin Landing, 185 Berry St, STE 350, Lobby 7, Campus Box 0946, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 190:526-32. 2008..The purpose of our study was to estimate per-physician annual volumes of mammography interpretation... - Screening mammography in the American elderlyChristopher R Kagay
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Prev Med 31:142-9. 2006..Substantial differences exist in estimates of the proportion of elderly women who undergo screening mammography and the impact of race and ethnicity on mammography usage... - An assessment of the quality of mammography care at facilities treating medically vulnerable populationsL Elizabeth Goldman
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
Med Care 46:701-8. 2008..Whether mammography facilities that treat vulnerable women demonstrate lower quality of care than other facilities is unknown... - Mammographic density and estrogen receptor status of breast cancerElad Ziv
Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, 1635 Divisadero Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 04115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:2090-5. 2004..We determined if mammographic density is associated more strongly with ER-positive breast cancer than with ER-negative breast cancer... - Factors associated with mammography utilization: a systematic quantitative review of the literatureKristin M Schueler
Department of Radiology, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, California, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 17:1477-98. 2008..We sought to summarize literature related to factors associated with receipt of mammography. For data sources, we used English language papers published between 1988 and 2007, including 221 studies describing 4,957,347 women... - External validation of Medicare claims codes for digital mammography and computer-aided detectionJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine and Center for Healthcare Research and Policy, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 21:1344-7. 2012..Claims codes for digital mammography and computer-aided detection (CAD), for example, have not been validated against a credible external reference standard... - Prostate cancer: prediction of biochemical failure after external-beam radiation therapy--Kattan nomogram and endorectal MR imaging estimation of tumor volumeAntonio C Westphalen
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, Box 0628, Room M 372, San Francisco, CA 94143 0628, USA
Radiology 261:477-86. 2011..To determine whether magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and MR spectroscopic imaging findings can improve predictions made with the Kattan nomogram for radiation therapy... - Measurement of breast density with dual X-ray absorptiometry: feasibilityJohn A Shepherd
Department of Radiology, Osteoporosis and Arthritis Research Group, University of California at San Francisco, 94143, USA
Radiology 223:554-7. 2002..998) and with density at mammography (r(adjusted) = 0.83). DXA precision (SD) was 0.5% without and 1.1% with breast repositioning. DXA devices can be used to accurately and precisely estimate breast tissue density... - Evaluation of abnormal mammography results and palpable breast abnormalitiesKarla Kerlikowske
University of California, San Francisco, General Internal Medicine Section, Department of Veterans Affairs, San Francisco, California 94121, USA
Ann Intern Med 139:274-84. 2003.... - Environmental causes of breast cancer and radiation from medical imaging: findings from the Institute of Medicine reportRebecca Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, 94143, USA
Arch Intern Med 172:1023-7. 2012..It is the responsibility of individual health care providers who order medical imaging to understand and weigh the risk of any medical procedures against the expected benefit... - Accuracy of mammographic breast density analysis: results of formal operator trainingSven Prevrhal
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-1250, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 11:1389-93. 2002.... - Use of diagnostic imaging studies and associated radiation exposure for patients enrolled in large integrated health care systems, 1996-2010Rebecca Smith-Bindman
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, 350 Parnassus Ave, Ste 307, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0336, USA
JAMA 307:2400-9. 2012..Use of diagnostic imaging has increased significantly within fee-for-service models of care. Little is known about patterns of imaging among members of integrated health care systems... - Acute appendicitis: clinical outcome in patients with an initial false-positive CT diagnosisJoseph W Stengel
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 0628, USA
Radiology 256:119-26. 2010..To investigate the clinical outcome in patients with a diagnosis of appendicitis at computed tomography (CT) in whom treatment is deemed unnecessary after clinical evaluation... - Airport full-body screening: what is the risk?Pratik Mehta
Department of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Arch Intern Med 171:1112-5. 2011..We conclude that there is no significant threat of radiation from the scans... - Short-interval follow-up mammography: are we doing the right thing?Karla Kerlikowske
J Natl Cancer Inst 95:418-9. 2003 - Changes in the utilization of prenatal diagnosisPeter A Benn
Division of Human Genetics, Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030 6140, USA
Obstet Gynecol 103:1255-60. 2004..To measure the overall effectiveness in actual clinical practice, we analyzed the tests performed by a single cytogenetics laboratory... - Differences in the quality of breast cancer care among vulnerable populationsDavid A Haggstrom
Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7344, USA
Cancer 104:2347-58. 2005..81; 95% CI 0.73-0.89). CONCLUSIONS: The quality of breast cancer care is lower among vulnerable populations across the continuum of care, and many of these differences have not improved in more recent years... - Access to diagnostic mammography in the San Francisco Bay AreaEmma Dinkelspiel
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 17:893-9. 2008..It is important to assess access to diagnostic mammography because of the high likelihood of breast cancer among women who need diagnostic evaluation. We studied access to diagnostic mammography in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area... - Radiologist characteristics associated with interpretive performance of diagnostic mammographyDiana L Miglioretti
Group Health Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, 1730 Minor Ave, Ste 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 99:1854-63. 2007..Extensive variability has been noted in the interpretive performance of screening mammography; however, less is known about variability in diagnostic mammography performance... - Racial and ethnic differences in breast cancer survival: how much is explained by screening, tumor severity, biology, treatment, comorbidities, and demographics?Elana Curtis
Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Cancer 112:171-80. 2008..The reasons for race/ethnicity (R/E) differences in breast cancer survival have been difficult to disentangle... - Evidence-based target recall rates for screening mammographyMichael J Schell
Biostatistics Division, Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology, Moffitt Research Center, 12902 Magnolia Dr, Tampa, FL 33612 9497, USA
Radiology 243:681-9. 2007..To retrospectively identify target recall rates for screening mammography on the basis of how sensitivity shifts with recall rate... - Comparing a supine radiologic versus standing clinical measurement of kyphosis in older women: the Fracture Intervention TrialDeborah M Kado
Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, The David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 31:463-7. 2006..A study of agreement between different measures of kyphosis, a clinical standing measure (Debrunner kyphometer; Protek AG, Bern, Switzerland) versus a supine radiologic measure (Cobb angle)...