Journal of medical screening
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To evaluate the impact of health authority cervical screening programmes upon the the actual screening interval for women attending as a result of routine recall and to assess the impact of general practice recall policies on attendance for smears. ⋯ Despite the cervical screening programme being a national programme, there is scope at a local level for considerable variation in the interpretation of national guidance. This variation effects the extent to which programmes comply with the requirement to screen all women at an interval of 3-5 years.
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To evaluate whether the information leaflets produced by UK colposcopy clinics provide women with the information they desire and to determine when they would like to receive this information. ⋯ Many UK colposcopy clinics do not appear to be providing women with the information they require to understand their condition and the procedure that they are about to undergo. Furthermore, this information is often not provided at the appropriate time in the screening process.
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Comparative Study
The cervical cancer screening programme in Norway, 1992-2000: changes in Pap smear coverage and incidence of cervical cancer.
Changes in the incidence of cervical cancer were studied to assess the impact of the Norwegian coordinated cervical cancer screening programme introduced in 1995. Attention was given as to whether recommendation letters sent to women without a screen in the previous 3 years could be an alternative to a conventional screening programme that invites women irrespectively of their spontaneous screening. ⋯ The coordinated screening programme provides a low cost way of increasing the coverage of the female population, and consequently has reduced the rate of invasive cervical cancer.
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(a) To monitor experiences of women during three successive rounds of breast screening; (b) to examine the impact of previous experiences (obtained either immediately after the latest mammogram or shortly before the subsequent one) on reattendance; and (c) to examine which factors are associated with the experience of pain and distress during screening. ⋯ Experiences during mammography are fairly stable. Negative experiences were generally not a reason to drop out of the programme.