{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Yuan Y"],"funding":["Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada","NIDCD NIH HHS","MSI foundation","Canadian Institutes of Health Research","CIHR"],"pagination":["e028766"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC6955468"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["10(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Objectives</h4>Regular breast cancer screening is a widely used cancer prevention strategy. Important quality indicators of screening include cancer detection rate, false positive rate, benign biopsy rate and post-screen invasive cancer rate. We compared quality indicators of community radiology clinics to those of 'Screen Test', which feature centralised batch reading and quality control processes. Both types of providers operated under a single provincial Breast Cancer Screening Programme.<h4>Setting</h4>Community radiology clinics are operated by independent fee-for-service radiologists serving large and small communities throughout the Canadian province of Alberta. Launched by the provincial cancer agency, the Screen Test operates two physical clinics serving metropolises and mobil"],"journal":["BMJ open"],"pubmed_title":["Importance of quality in breast cancer screening practice - a natural experiment in Alberta, Canada."],"pmcid":["PMC6955468"],"funding_grant_id":["RGPIN-2019-04862","DC0190GP","869","F32 DC000190"],"pubmed_authors":["Vu K","Winget M","Dickinson J","Shen Y","Yuan Y"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Importance of quality in breast cancer screening practice - a natural experiment in Alberta, Canada.","description":"<h4>Objectives</h4>Regular breast cancer screening is a widely used cancer prevention strategy. Important quality indicators of screening include cancer detection rate, false positive rate, benign biopsy rate and post-screen invasive cancer rate. We compared quality indicators of community radiology clinics to those of 'Screen Test', which feature centralised batch reading and quality control processes. Both types of providers operated under a single provincial Breast Cancer Screening Programme.<h4>Setting</h4>Community radiology clinics are operated by independent fee-for-service radiologists serving large and small communities throughout the Canadian province of Alberta. Launched by the provincial cancer agency, the Screen Test operates two physical clinics serving metropolises and mobil","dates":{"release":"2020-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2020 Jan","modification":"2026-05-07T01:14:17.849Z","creation":"2020-05-22T08:28:48Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC6955468","cross_references":{"pubmed":["31911508"],"doi":["10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028766"]}}