The initiative led to a 30% increase in the number of patients who required fewer visits before receiving a diagnosis, University of Michigan Health System researchers reported.

"The accuracy of PSMA-PET is essential to improve stratification and potentially outcomes both in low-risk and high-risk settings,” a doctor involved in the study explained in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Michigan Medicine had seen breast MRI volumes climb 94% while related biopsies leapt 150%, prompting leaders to launch their quality initiative. 

After witnessing a 6-fold increase in early-stage cancer diagnoses and no change in late-stage disease numbers, experts began to question ongoing screening methods.

Updated department protocols dropped the median monthly number of abdominopelvic CTs with and without contrast from 74 scans down to 53, experts explained in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

Loma Linda University Medical Center has strengthened ties between its radiology department, hospital administration and liver transplant team to achieve its quality goals.

“Our hope is to change the course of neurodegeneration, with the long-term goal of curing diseases in their earliest stages, years before symptoms are even seen,” a doctor involved in the study said.

Radiologists should complete specific training to understand these measurements before using membranous urethra length as a predictor of postoperative continence, University of Michigan researchers suggested.