OBJECTIVES The primary objective of this paper is to compare cervical cancer screening rates of family physicians in Ontario's two dominant reformed practice models, Family Health Group (FHG) and Family Health Organization (FHO), and traditional fee-for-service (FFS) model. Both reformed models formally enrol patients and offer extensive pay-for-performance incentives; however, they differ by r...

Selecting more effective teachers among job applicants during the hiring process could be a highly cost-effective means of improving educational quality, but there is little research that links information gathered during the hiring process to subsequent teacher performance. We study the relationship among applicant characteristics, hiring outcomes, and teacher performance in Washington DC Publ...

Selecting more effective teachers among job applicants during the hiring process could be a highly cost-effective means of improving educational quality, but there is little research that links information gathered during the hiring process to subsequent teacher performance. We study the relationship among applicant characteristics, hiring outcomes, and teacher performance in Washington DC Publ...

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines will likely have an impact as a preventive strategy for cervical cancer. Screening for precancerous lesions cannot be discontinued because vaccination will not protect against HPV types not included in the first generation of vaccines. Moreover, protection for the target types, 16 and 18, which are responsible for most cases of cervical precancerous lesions a...

OBJECTIVE To examine the distribution of uterine artery pulsatility index (UtA-PI) at 12, 22, 32 and 36 weeks' gestation in singleton pregnancies which develop pre-eclampsia (PE) and examine the performance of this biomarker in screening for PE. METHODS UtA-PI was measured in 92 712 singleton pregnancies at 11-13 weeks, in 67 605 cases at 19-24 weeks, in 31 741 at 30-34 weeks and in 5523 at 3...

AIMS This study compares different screening strategies for the detection of Down syndrome and considers practical implications of using multiple screening protocols. METHODS The performance characteristics of each screening strategy were assessed based on datasets of Down syndrome (n=11) and unaffected pregnancies (n=1006) tested in both first and second trimester, as well as data from first...

A recent report in Clinical Cancer Research (1) addresses detection characteristics (positive predictive value, cancer detection rates, and tumor characteristics) in men who have undergone firstand second-round screening in the Finnish randomized prostate cancer screening trial. The article (1) also reports on detection characteristics in the second round according to prostate-specific antigen ...

introduction: in cases with potential diagnosis of ischemic chest pain, screening high risk patients for adverse outcomes would be very helpful. the present study was designed aiming to determine the diagnostic accuracy of thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (timi) score in patients with potential diagnosis of ischemic chest pain. method: this diagnostic accuracy study was designed to evaluat...

Beginning school is an important milestone for children. Children's readiness for school involves cognitive, physical, and emotional development. Certain school programs allow children to start first grade after 66 months of age, together with 72 month-old children. In order to estimate school readiness, we screened children before starting first grade and compared their school performance acco...