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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2015 Apr;204(4):W486–W491. doi: 10.2214/AJR.13.12313

Table 3.

Original criteria and updated, combined criteria for identifying radiologists with acceptable cancer detection rate, recall rate, and positive predictive value of a recall

Criteria Cancer
detection
rate
Recall
rate
Positive
predictive
value of a
recall
Percentage of
BCSC
radiologists who
met criteria
(N=486)
Original ≥2.5/1000 5–12% 3–8% 40%
Updated ≥6/1000 and 3–20% 13%
or ≥4–6/1000 and 3–15% and ≥3% 31%
or 2.5–4/1000 and 5–12% and 3–8% 18%

BCSC, Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium