Efforts to Improve the Follow-up of Patients With Abnormal Papanicolaou Test Results
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Efforts to improve the follow-up of patients with abnormal Papanicolaou test results.
BACKGROUND We describe and evaluate efforts to improve the follow-up care of patients with abnormal Papanicolaou test results at an academic family practice center at Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh. METHODS From 1994 to 1996, 1796 patients received Papanicolaou testing; 147 (8 percent) of the smears had abnormal findings--16 percent had atypia, 83 percent had dysplasia, and 1 percent had ca...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1557-2625,1558-7118
DOI: 10.3122/15572625-11-1-1