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Current Realities of Delivering Mammography Services in the Community: Do Challenges with Staffing and Scheduling Exist?¹

¹ From the Breast Imaging Ctr, Dept of Radiology, Emory Univ, W.C.I. Building, 1701 Uppergate Dr, Suite C1104, Atlanta, GA 30322 (C.D.); Dept of Medicine, Univ of Washington, Seattle (S.P.T., C.N., J.G.E.); Dept of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover and Lebanon, NH (P.A.C.); Ctr for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Wash (L.A.A., S.H.T., W.E.B.); Lynn Sage Comprehensive Breast Ctr, Dept of Radiology, Northwestern Univ Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill (R.E.H., E.B.); Dept of Biostatistics, Univ of Alabama at Birmingham (G.R.C.); and Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, Wash (W.E.B.). Received Jan 23, 2004; revision requested Mar 31; revision received June 14; accepted July 21. Supported by Public Health Service grant HS-10591 (J.G.E.) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the National Cancer Institute, NIH, and the Department of Health and Human Services surveillance grants U01 CA 63731 (S.H.T.), 1 U01 CA86082–01 (P.A.C.), 5 U01 CA63736–09 (G.R.C.), and 5 U01 CA86076 (W.E.B.). Address correspondence to C.D. (e-mail: carl_dorsi@emoryhealthcare.org).

View larger version (22K): [in a new window]   Figure 1. Graph of responses by mammography facilities to the following: "We are currently experiencing a shortage of radiologists" (n = 45). Almost 50% of facilities are experiencing shortages for mammography image interpretation.

View larger version (22K): [in a new window]   Figure 2. Graph of reported difficulty by mammography facilities in maintaining adequate numbers of MQSA-certified technologists. Almost 50% of facilities have a problem maintaining MQSA-certified technologists.