Adjusting mammography--audit recommendations in a lower-incidence Taiwanese population.

Rationale And Objectives: Medical auditing of screening mammography is crucial to improving the quality of breast cancer care. Audit methodology and recommendations are well documented in the ACR's Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS). However, when screening a population with a lower incidence rate of breast cancer, performance recommendations should be adjusted for a better fit.

Patient-centered consumer health social network websites: a pilot study of quality of user-generated health information.

The quality of user-generated health information on consumer health social networking websites has not been studied. We collected a set of postings related to Diabetes Mellitus Type I from three such sites and classified them based on accuracy, error type, and clinical significance of error. We found 48% of postings contained medical content, and 54% of these were either incomplete or contained errors.