title: A multidisciplinary approach to breast biopsy.
abstract: The explosion in technological advances has provided physicians and patients more options in the diagnostic breast biopsy arena. Successful collaborative relationships between nurses, physicians, and all health care workers and detailed patient education are essential to provide optimum patient care. Survival in health care today mandates that perioperative nurses and their colleagues move outside traditional environments to provide quality, cost-effective care to patients and their family members. The aim of this collaborative approach to breast biopsy is to provide patients with the most expedient, accurate, cost-effective diagnoses with the least amount of physical and psychological trauma.
authors.affiliation: Ambulatory Surgery/Radiology Department, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Collette
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007374:Interior Design and Furnishings; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009871:Operating Room Nursing / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D009873:Operating Rooms; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D019990:Perioperative Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing* / Q000592:standards; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D016019:Survival Analysis