AuntMinnie's IMV MarketStat #40: Lead time for scheduling a screening mammography appointment

2006 03 30 13 45 47 706

As of this 2005 study of approximately 1,000 hospital and nonhospital sites performing mammography procedures in the U.S., 21% of the sites indicate that the typical lead time to schedule a screening mammography appointment is less than a day, 52% from one day to one week, 20% from one week to one month, and 7% have a typical lead time of over one month.

2006 03 30 13 45 47 706

Based on responses to IMV's 2005 Mammography Center Study of U.S. hospital and nonhospital sites.

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MarketStat Archives

Mix of 2004 angiography catheter/stent budgets

Radiographic fluoroscopy installed base, by table configuration

Types of images used in radiation therapy treatment plans

Transmission of echo images

MRI sites having at least one power injector

Mix of CT scanners by detector type

Mobile versus fixed PET or PET/CT sites and scanners

Cardiac versus noncardiac cath lab cases

External-beam patients per external-beam treatment unit

Distribution of nuclear medicine cameras, by type

Proportion of filmless procedures

CT procedure volume per site

Angiography procedure volume

Percent of MRI procedures using contrast media

Staffing of fixed PET sites

Cardiac cath imaging systems, by type

Radiation oncology patient mix

Fluoro contrast use

Distribution of CT sites

Clinical PET procedure mix

Distribution of radiology information systems

PACS shared image archiving

Mobile MRI vs. fixed MRI sites.

PET procedures per site

Echocardiography staff productivity

Cardiac cath lab case mix

Radiation oncology -- distribution of external beam therapy units

MRI productivity

Fluoroscopy procedure volume per site

Angiography procedure volume

Number of planned CR purchases

Top planned PACS applications

U.S. nuclear medicine utilization by top 10 states

Angiography room productivity

Nuclear medicine productivity

CT productivity per device

Mammography procedures per mammography unit

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