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MTMI: Mammography/MQSA

Regulations/Certification questions with

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What does MQSA stands for? Answer✓✓ Mammography Quality Standards Act When did MQSA became law? Answer✓✓ Oct 27 1992 When did final regulations went into effect? Answer✓✓ April 28 1999 What are the Quality Assurance and Evaluation/ (5) Answer✓✓ Accreditation and certification personnel requirements (MQSA) records keeping (MQSA) assessment categories required policies What does MQSA requires each mammography facility except VA? (2) Answer✓✓ Meet quality standards for personnel, equipment, maximum allowable dose, quality assurance, med medical audit and outcome analysis be accredited by a FDA approved accreditation Be certified to perform mammography by the FDA or ACR approved state certification Maintain certified status by maintaining its accreditation, annual medical survey

Which facility does not have to abide by MQSA standanrds? Answer✓✓ VA In order for a facility to perform mammography need to be? Answer✓✓ certified by FDA or FDA approved state body certification maintain certified status In order for a Technologist to perform mammography, they must have? Answer✓✓ General/full license by the state Certified in general radiography by certification body approved by FDA (ARRT) (ARCRT) How many hours should initial mammography have? Answer✓✓ 40 hours How many supervised mammograms should the technologist performed under MQSA for initial training? Answer✓✓ 25 How many hours should technologist have in a new modality in which the rad not previously trained before performing images independently? Answer✓✓ 8 hrs Every 3 years technologist must do how many credits of CE? Answer✓✓ 15 CE How many mammograms need to be performed every 2 year time period? Answer✓✓ 200

BIRAD Category How soon written reports need to be sent pt PT in terms easily understood? Answer✓✓ Within 30 days How soon should PT be notified in report indicates suspicious or highly suggestive of malignancy? Answer✓✓ 5 days What does the Medical Audit reveals what 3 categories? Answer✓✓ Number o false negatives (missed cancer) Number of false positives (suspected but turned ok) Number of mammograms interpreted correctly How often each interpreting physician should participate in the medical audit? Answer✓✓ every year Facility must comply with what after equipment becoming in contact with bodily fluids? Answer✓✓ procedures for cleaning and disinfecting How long the facility should maintain a record of serious complaint? Answer✓✓ 3 years What each facility should establish for collecting and resolving consumer complaints? Answer✓✓ written and documented system What are the accreditation and certification agencies? Answer✓✓ FDA ACR

How often is the FDA inspection? Answer✓✓ Once a year What is the purpose of the FDA inspection? Answer✓✓ inspector comes to facility and reviews quality control procedures, film documentation and practices What is the process of FDA inspection? Answer✓✓ any issues are graded into on of 2 levels Non compliance level 1 (FDA) Answer✓✓ most serious How long does the facility have to take necessary actions if FDA Non- Compliance level 1 was issued? Answer✓✓ 15 working days How long does the facility have to take necessary corrective actions if FDA non- compliance level 2 was issued? Answer✓✓ 30 working day with written response What is the frequency of ACR Accreditation? Answer✓✓ Every 3 years What is the purpose of ACR Accreditation? Answer✓✓ provides facility with peer review and constructive feedback What are the constructive feed back from the ACR accreditation? 6 Answer✓✓ staff qualification equipment quality control

After getting back the images form the 1st ACR physician with a fail or pass scor, where does ACR send your images? Answer✓✓ to a 2nd physician not in your state If both physician pass the images? Answer✓✓ your machine passess If only one physician passes your images? Answer✓✓ Images are sent to a 3rd physician not in your state Who passes or fails the phantom image? Answer✓✓ ACR medical physicist What criteria do images get graded on by the ACR phycician? Answer✓✓ exposure contrast positioning artifacts labeling compression noise sharpness What is the # 1 criteria for facility failing the Image quality for ACR? Answer✓✓ Positioning What is EQUIP? Answer✓✓ Enhancing

Quality Using Inspection Program What are the standards for evaluation under EQUIP? Answer✓✓ same as ACR criteria How often a periodic clinical review for all active RT and IP is required under EQUIP? Answer✓✓ at least annually What written documentation of clinical image review is required? 4 Answer✓✓ summary reports written statement by LIP that review was done image review meeting minutes memos of results to RT's and IP's Can a LIP verbally attest to oversight of QA/QC? Answer✓✓ Yes- not required in writing Can a facility verbally explain its system if procedures for corrective action when clinical image are of poor quality? Answer✓✓ Yes- not required in writing Facility must have a program in place for _____ separate from QC documentation? Answer✓✓ evaluation of clinical images