At a health care level, having a regular source of health care, having had a
Papanicolaou test in the past two years and HCP knowing one's sexual orientation were associated with substantially higher odds of past two-year CBE, while the belief that one's HCP is uncomfortable with one's sexual orientation was associated with slightly lower odds of past two-year CBE.
Accuracy of
Papanicolaou test in screening for and follow up of cervical cytological abnormalities: a systemic review.
Abbreviations: APT, anal
Papanicolaou test; ASC-US, atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance; bx, biopsy; EUA, examination under anesthesia; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; HR-HPV, high-risk human papillomavirus; HSIL, high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion; LSIL, low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion; Pap, Papanicolaou; SIL, squamous intraepithelial lesion.
"Future research should focus on overcoming the underlying factors that contribute to this mortality gap (differential follow-up for abnormal
Papanicolaou test results and barriers to care after diagnosis) and on determining why black women and older women receive different and inadequate treatment for the same disease," wrote Dr.
For cultural reasons, only married women were asked how long it had been since their most recent
Papanicolaou test; all women aged [greater than or equal to] 35 years were asked how long it had been since their most recent mammogram.
The Annual
Papanicolaou test. Women's safety and public policy.
Cytologic features of high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion in ThinPrep
Papanicolaou test slides: comparison of cases that performed poorly with those that performed well in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in Cervicovaginal Cytology.
Five-year experience of human papillomavirus DNA and
Papanicolaou test cotesting.
Impact of increasing
Papanicolaou test sensitivity and compliance: a modeled cost and outcomes analysis.
After three consecutive normal annual
Papanicolaou test results, cytologic screening may be done less frequently than yearly, provided the patient is considered to be at low risk for abnormalities.