Stewart, Kate A, et al. “The effect of immediate reading of screening mammograms on medical care utilization and costs after false-positive mammograms.” Health services research 42.4 (2007):1464-1482.
Case-control study of women with false-positives v. normal mammograms. Included an analysis of rates of each for type of reading.

Ghate SV, et al. Comparison of recall and cancer detection rates for immediate versus batch interpretation of screening mammograms. Radiology. 2005 Apr;235(1):31-5.
Retrospective analysis of false positives and false negatives for mammograms. Does not identify how patients were assigned to immediate or batch reading group.

Burnside, Elizabeth S, et al. “The use of batch reading to improve the performance of screening mammography.” AJR, American journal of roentgenology 185.3 (2005):790-796.
This before-and-after study examined the effect on quality by uninterrupted time for batch reading versus the previous method which was nonbatch but not conducted while the patient waited.

Searched PubMed and AHRQ. Keywords: batch, mammograms, false positives, recall, call back

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