Confirming suboptimal adherence to HPV cotesting guidelines in an academic center in Vermont
| Autor: | Gladwyn Leiman, Jessica B Bekker, Timothy St. John |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
Gynecology
Cervical cancer Vaginal Smears medicine.medical_specialty Practice patterns business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Papanicolaou stain Uterine Cervical Neoplasms General Medicine Cervical cancer screening medicine.disease Tumor Virus Infections Age groups Family medicine medicine Humans Mass Screening Female Rural practice Human papillomavirus Practice Patterns Physicians' business Early Detection of Cancer |
| Zdroj: | American journal of clinical pathology. 139(2) |
| ISSN: | 1943-7722 |
| Popis: | To the Editor We read with interest the report by Tatsas et al1 documenting practice patterns of cervical cancer screening and human papillomavirus (HPV) cotesting. The authors noticed a trend of increased adoption of age-appropriate cotesting in women 30 years and older, and a persistence of age-inappropriate cotesting in women younger than 30 years. We performed a comparable study at our institution, a rural practice with a low incidence of cervical cancer, and found disappointing, yet similar, results. We evaluated the ordering practices of providers by analyzing the number of Papanicolaou (Pap) tests performed with and without accompanying HPV orders for 2 age groups: women younger than … |
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