Intralaboratory quality assurance in cervical/vaginal cytology: Evaluation of intercytologist diagnostic reproducibility

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 87-92

  Cocchi, Valeria ^a   Carretti, Donata ^a   Fanti, Simonetta ^a   Baldazzi, Paola ^a   Casotti, Maria Teresa ^a   Piazzi, Roberta ^a   Prosperi, Letizia ^a   Morselli Labate, Antonio Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

cervical vaginal smears; kappa statistic; quality control; reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; CONDYLOMA; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VAGINA CYTOLOGY; VAGINA SMEAR;

CERVIX UTERI; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINA; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031048270     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199701)16:1<87::AID-DC19>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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