- Poster presentation
- Open Access
Monitoring radiographic data within the West Midlands National Health Service Breast Screening Programme
- Published: 14 July 2004
Keywords
- Cancer Research
- National Health
- Common Reason
- Technical Reason
- Screen Programme
Monitoring Technical Recall/Technical Repeat is important to ensure that the films produced by practitioners working within breast screening are of a consistently high quality. The National Health Service Breast Screening Programme set the standard that at least 97% of mammograms are adequate for radiological interpretation and ≤3% of examinations are repeated for technical reasons.
The West Midlands Breast Screening QA Reference Centre has developed a tool for Technical Recall/Technical Repeat data to be collected quickly and accurately. For the period 1 April 2002–31 March 2003, 2974 (2%) women had a repeat screen. Information is collected on the location of the original screen (mobile or static) and the cause of the repeat. Consistently over time the most common reason for a retake being necessary was inadequate radiographer positioning.
Table 1
Date | Number of women screened | Number of women recalled/repeated | % of women recalled/repeated |
|---|---|---|---|
April–June 2002 | 35,490 | 907 | 2.6 |
July–September 2002 | 34,527 | 748 | 2.2 |
October–December 2002 | 35,882 | 562 | 1.6 |
January–March 2003 | 40,818 | 757 | 1.9 |
April 2002–March 2003 | 146,717 | 2974 | 2.0 |
