Private practice interdisciplinary breast centers: their rationale and impact on patients, physicians, and the health care industry: a bicoastal perspective.
This article reports on the experience of two private practice breast centers in New York and California. It demonstrates that comprehensive breast centers directed by full-time breast imagers have a significant impact on medical care from the perspective of the patient, her physicians, and the health care system. These two centers, separated by a continent, disparate in their formation and founding philosophies, yield very similar results in breast cancer diagnosis, reduction of the benign biopsies, and improving the cost of breast biopsies.
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Department of Breast Imaging, MemorialCare Breast Center, Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center, Fountain Valley, California 92708, USA.
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D001706:Biopsy / Q000379:methods; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history / Q000628:therapy; D002140:California; D002173:Cancer Care Facilities / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D009518:New York; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D014932:Women's Health Services / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration*