Confused about BI-RADS 0? Here are guidelines to help you along

April 1, 2008 Diagnostic Imaging. Confused about BI-RADS 0? Here are guidelines to help you along Stamatia Destounis, M.D. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is there confusion surrounding the Breast Imaging Reporting and Database System (BI-RADS) category 0 assessment? If it is used in the manner in which the American College of Radiology originally meant it to be implemented, there shouldn't be. The only time BI-RADS category 0 should be used is when a screening mammogram is read and the final assessment is "incomplete—needs further imaging studies" or "needs comparison to prior studies." BI-RADS was designed by the ACR in 1993 to provide an organized approach to image interpretation and reporting. Part of the organization's goal was to standardize reporting and reduce the confusion in breast imaging interpretations. BI-RADS not only aids radiologists in managing the medical outcomes audit but is also an excellent information tool to help referring physicians appropriately manage and follow their patients' mammography studies.1

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