Reproducibility of classification and correction for verification bias as determinants of performance of Papanicolaou smear cytology in the screening setting: Experience from the new independent states of the former Soviet Union cohort study

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 548-557

  Syrjänen, Kari ^a   Shabalova, Irena ^c   Ivanchenko, Olga ^d   Kljukina, Ludmila ^e   Grunberga, Valerija ^f   Syrjänen, Stina ^b   Petrovichev, Nicolay ^g   Kozachenko, Vladimir ^g   Zakharova, Tatjana ^g   Pajanidi, Julia ^g   Podistov, Jurij ^g   Chameris, Galina ^g   Sozaeva, Larisa ^c   Lipova, Elena ^c   Tsidaeva, Irena ^d   Pshepurko, Alla ^d   Zakharenko, Sergej ^h   Nerovjna, Raisa ⁱ   Erokhina, Oksana ^e   Branovskaja, Marina ^j   Nikitina, Maritta ^f   Grunberg, Alexandr ^f   Juschenko, Anna ^f   Santopietro, Rosa ^k   Cintorino, Marcella ^k   Tosi, Piero ^k   more..

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education Department of Urology   (Russian Federation)

^d Nizhnii Novgorod Region Clinical Hospital   (Russian Federation)

^e Research Institute of Oncology and Medical Radiology of the Ministry of Health of the Byelorussian SSR   (Belarus)

^f Latvian Cancer Centre   (Latvia)

^g N N BLOKHIN RUSSIAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

^h Novgorod Municipal Dermato Venereological Dispensary ^*  (Russian Federation)

ⁱ Novgorod Female Consultative Outpatient Hospital   (Russian Federation)

^j BELARUSIAN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Conversion; Cytology; Papanicolaou smear; Performance; Reproducibility; Screening; Standardization; Verification bias

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCREENING TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USSR; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69749100123     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000325383     Document Type: Article

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