External Quality Assurance for Cervical Cytology in Developing Countries: Experience in Peru and Nicaragua

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-31

  Salvetto, Micol ^a   Sandiford, Peter ^b  

^a Inst for Health Sector Development   (United Kingdom)

^b Instituto CentroAmericano de Salud (ICAS)   (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Mass screening; Nicaragua; Peru; Quality assurance, health care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EXPERT SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; NICARAGUA; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED KINGDOM; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

EID: 0842283990     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000326279     Document Type: Article

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