January JACR: Public Education Eases Anxiety About Screening Mammography

Newswise — 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 has not been previously released online is Introduction of Thoracic CT-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration to a Resource-Limited Radiology Department in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Meryle J. Eklund, MD; Patricia A. Hudgins, MD; Tesfaye Kebede, MD; Asfaw Atnafu, MD; and Aarti Sekhar, MD

JACR is the official journal of the American College of Radiology, providing information on topics affecting the practice of diagnostic radiologists, interventional radiologists, medical physicists and radiation oncologists. For related information, visit the journal’s blog or participate in its Twitter chats.

About the American College of Radiology The American College of Radiology (ACR), founded in 1924, is a professional medical society dedicated to serving patients and society by empowering radiology professionals to advance the practice, science and professions of radiological care. To arrange an interview with any ACR member or get JACR articles, please contact Shawn Farley at 703-648-8936, Maryann Verrillo at 703-390-9822 or email [email protected].