Cervical cancer is preventable if effective screening measures are in place. Pap-smear is the commonest technique used for early screening and diagnosis of cervical cancer. However, the manual analysis of the pap-smears is error prone due to human mistak
Wong LP, Wong YL, Low WY, Khoo EM, Shuib R (2008) Cervical cancer screening attitudes and beliefs of Malaysian women who have never had a pap smear: a qualitative study. Int J Behav Med 15(4):289–292 Article PubMed CAS Google Scholar Erbil N, Tezcan Y, Gur EN, Yildirim M, Al...
Understanding Your Pap Smear, a work pro- duced by the Cytopathology Education Consortium, is oriented toward the public.28 It consists of a script or narrative and a set of 27 photomicrographs. The program emphasizes the necessity of annual Pap smears, introduces patient responsibilities, and ...
Concerning Pap smear, a high level of education was significantly associated with increased awareness of Pap smear but not its uptake among respondents, whereas prior counseling by doctors/nurses about cervical cancer and knowing someone who has cervical cancer significantly increased both the awareness ...
Indicate conventional smear (Pap smear), liquid-based preparation (Pap test) vs other SPECIMEN ADEQUACY θ Satisfactory for evaluation (describe presence or absence of endocervical/transformation zone component and any other quality indicators, eg, partially obscuring blood, inflammation, etc) θ Unsatis...
Health-care staff at this facility more frequently recommended the Pap smear. Thus, this might be why uneducated women had a previous history of pap tests. Education is one of the most frequently mentioned independent factors in the literature.25 Numerous earlier studies revealed a favourable ...
Women have huge purchasing power and when women stop buying a bad product it tends to disappear from store shelves. This pattern might extend to the pap smear as more and more women are opting out of this questionable method of screening for cervical ca
Health-care staff at this facility more frequently recommended the Pap smear. Thus, this might be why uneducated women had a previous history of pap tests. Education is one of the most frequently mentioned independent factors in the literature.25 Numerous earlier studies revealed a favourable ...
OBJECTIVE: To examine the hypothesis that literacy predicts patient adherence to follow-up recommendations after an abnormal Pap smear. DESIGN: A prospective, continuity clinic-based study. PARTICIPANTS: From a sample of 538 women undergoing literacy testing at the time of Pap smear screening, we st...
The traditional method of manual inspection, also known as a Pap smear examination, is inaccurate due to human error that may lead to a false patient diagnosis [9,10]. The technology for automated cervical cancer screening is indeed very significant for lessening the risk of cervical cancer. ...