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Volume 6, Issue 12 , Pages 851-860 , December 2009

The ACR BI-RADS^® Experience: Learning From History

Elizabeth S. Burnside, MD, MPH, MS
- Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
- Corresponding author and reprints: Elizabeth S. Burnside, MD, MPH, MS, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Department of Radiology, E3/311 Clinical Science Center, 600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53792-3252
Edward A. Sickles, MD
- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center, San Francisco, California
Lawrence W. Bassett, MD
- David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Daniel L. Rubin, MD, MS
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
Carol H. Lee, MD
- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
Debra M. Ikeda, MD
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
Ellen B. Mendelson, MD
- Department of Radiology, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
Pamela A. Wilcox
- Department of Quality and Safety, American College of Radiology, Reston, Virginia
Priscilla F. Butler
- Department of Quality and Safety, American College of Radiology, Reston, Virginia
Carl J. D'Orsi, MD
- Breast Imaging Center, Department of Radiology, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia

Publication rate calculated on the basis of the percentage of papers published in a given 2-year period as a percentage of the total in that category over the entire 22-year interval. The slopes of th

Publication rate calculated on the basis of the percentage of papers published in a given 2-year period as a percentage of the total in that category over the entire 22-year interval. The slopes of the lines represent the publication rates within the respective categories. Papers catalogued in PubMed demonstrate that observer and performance studies outpaced generic mammographic or mammography standards studies after the mid-1990s, when BI-RADS was increasingly adopted. The search was performed on May 14, 2009. Searches used Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms as follows: mammography = “Mammography[MeSH Terms]”; standards = “Mammography/standards[MAJR]”; observer studies = “Mammography[MeSH Terms] AND Observer Variation[MeSH Terms]”; and performance = “Mammography[MeSH Terms] AND Sensitivity and Specificity[MeSH Term].”
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