Triple assessment guideline with feedback loop

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Computerised decision support for the initial assessment of women referred to specialist breast units. Triple assessment covers: imaging (typically mammography and ultrasound); clinical examination; pathology (needle sampling). Genetic risk assessment is

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Guideline objectives	Computerised decision support for the initial assessment of women referred to specialist breast units. Triple assessment covers: imaging (typically mammography and ultrasound); clinical examination; pathology (needle sampling). Genetic risk assessment is also included in this application.
Target setting	secondary care
Target users	breast nurse practitioners, breast surgeons, breast radiologists, breast pathologists
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Management	Author: Vivek Patkar & Ioannis Chronakis Release date: 17-09-2008 20:32:00 Status: Draft - Under Review History:
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Sources	NICE (Familial Breast Cancer guidelines) BASO (Management of symptomatic breast disease in the UK, 1998) NCCN (Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis) SIGN (Breast Cancer in Women) ACR (Appropriate imaging work-up of palpable breast masses; Appropriate imaging work-up of breast microcalcifications; Performance of diagnostic mammography; Performance of a breast ultrasound examination) ASCO (Breast cancer surveillance, 1998) NHSBSP (Breast cancer screening assessment Non-operative diagnostic procedures and reporting in breast cancer screening).
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