Table 2.

Demographic and clinical experience characteristics of radiologists and their self-reported mammography performance goals within desirable goal ranges.

	Total	% of radiologists with self-reported performance goals within desirable goal range*
		Recall	False Positive	PPV2	Cancer Detection
Characteristic	N
Total	257	79	22	39	61
Demographics
Age at survey
34-44	69	72	20	36	52
45-54	89	85	26	45	74
≥55	99	77	19	35	55
Sex
Male	184	78	22	37	62
Female	73	79	22	44	58
Practice Type
Affiliation with academic medical center
No	208	77	21	38	61
Adjunct	24	75	29	25	50
Primary	22	95	27	64	73
Breast Imaging Experience
Fellowship training
No	236	77	21	38	60
Yes	21	95	29	48	71
Years of mammography interpretation
<10	56	73	16	36	50
10-19	91	82	20	44	69
≥20	109	79	27	37	60
Hours working breast imaging
0-30	42	79	24	38	62
31-40	57	82	21	37	63
> 40	155	77	21	40	59
Number of breast imaging CME hours/3 yr reporting period
15 hr minimum	65	71	20	28	54
>15 hrs, but < 30 hrs	116	78	21	38	61
30 hrs or more	74	86	26	50	66
Volume
Self-reported average # of mammograms per year over the past 5 years
Total:
<= 1000	25	76	20	24	40
1001-2000	81	75	23	37	65
>= 2000	134	84	22	42	65
Audit reports
Receive audit reports
Never	22	82	14	14	50
Once/year	157	84	24	41	64
> once/year	57	75	21	51	68

^*Desirable goal ranges were defined as 2-10% for recall rate and false positive rate, 25-40% for PPV2, and 2-10 per 1,000 screening mammograms for cancer detection rate. Radiologists that did not respond to the question were defined as having goals outside of desirable goal range.

^**BOLD indicates statistical significance at the 0.05-level