Diagnostic Accuracy of Breast Medical Tactile Examiners (MTEs): A Prospective Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The usefulness of clinical breast examination (CBE) in general and in breast cancer screening programs has been a matter of debate. This study investigated whether adding vision-impaired medical tactile examiners (MTEs) improves the predictiveness of CBE for suspicious lesions and analyzed the feasibility and acceptability of this approach.

Methods

The prospective study included 104 patients. Physicians and MTEs performed CBEs, and mammography and ultrasound results were used as the gold standard. Sensitivity and specificity were calculated and logistic regression models were used to compare the predictive value of CBE by physicians alone, MTEs alone, and physicians and MTEs combined.

Results

For CBEs by physicians alone, MTEs alone, and both combined, sens

SUBMITTER: Lux MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6465747 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature