January JACR: Public Education Eases Anxiety About Screening Mammography

Reston, VA — The January Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR) offers articles highlighting radiologists’ involvement in educating patients about mammography and making imaging safer for children. Select January articles published online ahead of print are listed below. Direct Interactive Public Education by Breast Radiologists About Screening Mammography: Impact on Anxiety and Empowerment: Attendees of radiologist-provided direct public lectures reported decreased anxiety and improved knowledge regarding screening mammography. The resultant reduced anxiety and educational empowerment help enable informed decision-making and may promote screening attendance. Jiyon Lee, MD; Lara A. Hardesty, MD; Nathan M. Kunzler; and Andrew B. Rosenkrantz, MD, MPA Reducing Radiation Dose in Pediatric Diagnostic Fluoroscopy: Implementation of radiation dose tracking with short training sessions leads to clinically significant dose reduction during pediatric fluoroscopic studies. Anish Ghodadra, MD, and Stefano Bartoletti, MD Vertebral Augmentation After Recent Randomized Controlled Trials: A New Rise in Kyphoplasty Volumes: Vertebroplasty rates dropped sharply after publication of the Kallmes and Buchbinder trials, but kyphoplasty volumes are rising. Mougnyan Cox, MD; David C. Levin, MD; Laurence Parker, PhD; William Morrison, MD; Suzanne Long, MD; and Vijay M. Rao, MD A JACR article that had not been previously released online is Introduction of Thoracic C...
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