OVERVIEW

Optimal Policies for Reducing Unnecessary Follow-up Mammography Exams in Breast Cancer Diagnosis is organized by Opus Medicus, Inc and will be held from Aug 31, 2018 - Aug 30, 2021.

Credits:
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Opus Medicus designates this Internet enduring material for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Credits
In addition to AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™, Opus Medicus designates this course for Specialty Board MOC Program Credits: 2.0 ABIM MOC Points1

Course Description:
This course provides structured guidelines based on a decision-analytical approach that is designed to help radiologists decide when to recommend a biopsy or short-interval follow-up based on a patient-specific breast cancer risk. The course presents a decision process model that optimizes the post-mammography diagnostic decisions for an individual woman that maximizes her total expected quality-adjusted life-years. Clinical data is used in solving the model and the results are compared with the actual decisions made by radiologists.

Topics:
• Introduction
• Background on Mammography Interpretation
• Problem Formulation
• Structural Properties
• Computational Results
• Conclusions

Conference Objective:
• Participants completing this course will gain an understanding of new structured guidelines on when to recommend a biopsy or short-interval follow-up based on a patient-specific breast cancer risk.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.