Breast Ultrasound Reports: Deficiencies and Recommendations

Abstract

Background: To investigate the compliance of the reports of the breast ultrasound scanned in different hospitals according to the ACR-BIRADS criteria in terms of their content and results.Methods: 230 breast ultrasound scan reports between 2015-2020 were included in this retrospective study. The health centers were evaluated in four categories as university hospital, training and research hospital, state hospital, private hospital. The reports were evaluated according to the ACR-BIRADS 5th edition (2013) standards in terms of technical features, sonographic findings, results and comments.Results: The size of the lesion was reported in 98%, the localization in 99% of the reports. Mentioning rates of the shape, orientation, acoustic feature, vascularity, elasticity properties were below 50% (resp.22%,15%,10%,20%). While the BIRADS classification were reported in the 58% of the reports, comments and suggestions were reported in 52% of them.Conclusion: Arrangement of assessment and reporting standardization according to ACR-BIRADS criteria will contribute to better communication with clinicians as well as making decisions in the patient management process.