Resources for Breast Centers and Mammography Departments
We collaborate with leading organizations to provide comprehensive educational resources for both breast center staff and patients. Many of our partners also offer continuing education credit opportunities to help your team stay current with the latest advances in breast imaging and patient care.
The NAPBC, administered by the American College of Surgeons, provides breast centers with quality measures that serve as benchmarks for determining the quality of breast care provided to patients. Breast centers that meet or exceed the NAPBC quality measures are recognized for their commitment to operating a high-quality breast program.
The NQMBC is a quality program, developed by the National Consortium of Breast Centers, that enables breast centers to input quality measure data and receive immediate feedback, comparing their performance with other breast centers across the nation. Breast centers can use the comparative reports to gain insight into the quality of care provided to patients and/or areas in need of improvement.
The Breast Imaging Center of Excellence (BICOE) designation is awarded to centers that achieve excellence by seeking and earning accreditation in all of the ACR’s voluntary breast-imaging accreditation programs and modules, in addition to the mandatory Mammography Accreditation Program.
The National Mammography Database (NMD) leverages data that radiology practices are already collecting by providing comparative information for national and regional benchmarking. Participants receive semiannual feedback reports that include important benchmark data such as cancer detection rates, positive predictive value rates and recall rates.
The NCCN is a The National Comprehensive Cancer Network is an alliance of 30 leading cancer centers devoted to patient care, research, and education. The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines are the recognized standard in oncology and cover prevention, risk reduction, screening, diagnosis, treatment, supportive care, and survivorship for 97% of all cancers.
RSNA is the world’s largest radiology meeting with over 50,000 attendees from 137 countries. RSNA is held every November or early December in Chicago.
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