Metaanalysis of the accuracy of rapid prescreening relative to full screening of pap smears.

Last updated on 23-8-2019 by Anonymous (niet gecontroleerd)

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BACKGROUND: Efficient quality assurance and improvement measures are essential ingredients in a well organized cytology-based program for cervical carcinoma screening. Various pap smear review procedures, aiming for optimization of accuracy, are described throughout the literature. Evaluation and synthesis of those methods are needed. In a previous study, we pooled data on the diagnostic quality of rapid reviewing (RR) of cervical smears initially reported as normal or unsatisfactory. We now focus on rapid prescreening (RPS) of unreported smears.METHODS: Six published studies on the accurac…

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