Low‐cost mammography screening. Practical considerations with emphasis on mobile operation
Low‐cost mammography screening. Practical considerations with emphasis on mobile operation
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低成本乳房X线摄影筛查的实际考虑，重点是移动操作。
作者：
E. Sickles;W. Weber;H. B. Galvin;S. Ominsky;R. Sollitto
如果大多数国家医疗组织公布的乳腺癌筛查指南被遵循，美国将有超过5000万妇女定期接受乳房X光检查。然而，实际上只有5%到15%。遵守乳房X光检查指南的一个主要障碍是目前检查的高价格。* 为了克服这个问题，已经设计了几种低成本筛选的方法，其中大多数都得到了热烈的欢迎。“~"~为了向我们当地社区提供这样的服务，也为了创建一个易于适用于其他城市的原型程序，加州大学旧金山弗朗西斯科放射科系开发了一个财务上有偿付能力的筛查程序，其目的是以尽可能低的价格向患者提供高质量的乳房X线摄影。本文详细介绍了具体的特点，允许低成本操作我们的筛选程序。
F THE GUIDELINES for breast cancer screening pubI lished by most national medical organizations were followed, over 50 million women in the United States would have periodic mamm~graphy.'-~ However, only 5% to 15% actually A major impediment to compliance with mammography screening guidelines is the current high price of examinati~n.~.~,''-'* To overcome this problem, several approaches to low-cost screening have been devised, most of which were met with enthusiastic ac~eptance. '~"~ In order to offer such a service to our local community and also to create a prototype program that is readily adaptable to use in other cities, the Department of Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco has developed a financially solvent screening program whose aim is to provide high-quality mammography at the lowest possible price to the patient. This paper describes in detail the specific features permitting low cost operation of our screening program.