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Information for mammography facility personnel, inspectors, and consumers               about the implementation of the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992 (MQSA)

MQSA Facility Scorecard Articles

• Establishing and/or Changing the Phantom Image Test Operating Levels
  September 27, 2006
   
• Updated Trends in Mammography Dose and Image Quality
  June 16, 2006
   
• FDA to Scrutinize MQSA Facilities with History of Noncompliance
  December 22, 2005
   
• Average Glandular Dose in FDA-approved FFDM Systems
  - W. G. Mourad, Ph.D.
  Information Management Branch
  Division of Mammography Quality and Radiation Programs
  Office of Communication, Education and Radiation Programs
  March 15, 2005
   
• What Actions Can FDA Take to Ensure Quality Mammography?
  - Sharon M. Davis
  Consumer Safety Officer, Inspection and Compliance Branch
  Division of Mammography Quality and Radiation Programs
  Office of Communications, Education, and Radiation Programs
  December 13, 2004
   
• What It Means To Be MQSA Certified
  - Kathleen A. Franke
  Chief, Accreditation and Certification Branch
  Division of Mammography Quality and Radiation Programs
  Office of Communications, Education, and Radiation Programs
   
• Repeat Observations - The Wrong Way to Go
  - W.G. Mourad, Ph.D.
   
• Medical Audit and Outcome Analysis - Are your Patients Getting the Full Picture?
  - W.G. Mourad, Ph.D.

• Dose and Image Quality in Mammography: Trends during the First Decade of MQSA
  - David C. Spelic, Ph.D.

• Mammography Equipment Evaluations and the Annual Survey - Is Your Equipment Up to the Task?
  Article relating quality of mammography at a facility to equipment used to produce the mammograms.
  - W.G. Mourad, Ph.D.

• Mammography Quality - Are your Patients in Good Hands?
  Article relating quality of mammography products and services to qualifications of the professionals who provide them.
  - W.G. Mourad, Ph.D.

• Mammography Reports - Are you doing right by your patients?
  Article on dealing with the contents of the mammography report and communicating examination results.
  - W. G. Mourad, Ph.D.

• Recent Inspection Results
  Information regarding the number and percentage of facilities having MQSA violations nationwide.
  - W. G. Mourad, Ph.D.

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Updated September 27, 2006

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