AHRQ In Brief
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Breast biopsy guides published: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Effective Health Care Program released guides for physicians and patients April 14 based on the program's report, "Comparative Effectiveness of Core-Needle and Open Surgical Biopsy for the Diagnosis of Breast Lesions." The procedure can be used with or without imaging, but the report says there is no consensus on which method provides the best accuracy or the lowest risk of harm