Programs Prostate
Prostate Imaging
Optimizing imaging utilization and enhancing the quality of prostate MRI and fusion biopsies
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What is the MUSIC Imaging Initiative?
- Goal: Improve patterns of care in radiographic staging of men with prostate cancer.
Current focus – MRI/fusion biopsy:
Our focus is on improving the quality of prostate MRI and fusion biopsies throughout MichiganWhat we do:
- Provide education for sites interested in starting fusion biopsy programs.
- Provide regular feedback on fusion biopsy outcomes to participating sites.
- Facilitate multidisciplinary (urology and radiology) reviews of local fusion biopsy data.
Early work:
- Optimizing imaging utilization for patients with newly diagnosed prostate cancer.
- To better understand the current rates of utilization and ensure that imaging studies were being ordered for patients that could truly benefit.
- MUSIC was able to achieve a statewide decrease in the utilization of both bone and CT scans for patients with low-risk prostate cancer.
- To optimize imaging in intermediate/high-risk patients, MUSIC developed and implemented statewide specific, evidence-based appropriateness criteria for staging bone scan and/or CT scan (see below).
