Accuracy of Screening Tools for Pap Smears in General Practice

Accuracy of Screening Tools for Pap Smears in General Practice.

BACKGROUND Data extraction tools (DETs) are increasingly being used for research and audit of general practice, despite their limitations.Objective This study explores the accuracy of Pap smear rates obtained with a DET compared to that of the Pap smear rate obtained with a manual file audit. METHOD A widely available DET was used to establish the rate of Pap smears in a large multi-general p...

Screening for Cervical Cancer Using Automated Analysis of PAP-Smears

Cervical cancer is one of the most deadly and common forms of cancer among women if no action is taken to prevent it, yet it is preventable through a simple screening test, the so-called PAP-smear. This is the most effective cancer prevention measure developed so far. But the visual examination of the smears is time consuming and expensive and there have been numerous attempts at automating the...

Accuracy of Neck Circumference as a Screening Tool in Classifying General and Central Obesity

Objective: the neck circumference (NC) as an index of obesity and upper-body subcutaneous adipose tissue distribution is recently used. This alternative screening tool is reliable, simple, quick and acceptable for assessment of overweight and obesity. the objectives of this study were to examine the correlation between NC measurement and diagnosis of general/visceral obesity and determining the...

Screening for cervical cancer in general practice.

THE benefit of regular screening for cervical cancer is now generally accepted. In the Scandinavian Countries and British Columbia where the majority of women have regular smear tests there has been a substantial reduction in mortality from cervical cancer.' 2 Furthermore, tumours are being detected at an earlier stage of development, while mortality is now largely confined to those who have ne...

Predictive accuracy of falls risk screening tools.