Quality Assurance in Cervical Smears

Rita Goreti Amaral, Luíz Carlos Zeferino, Ellen Hardy, Maria Cristina do Amaral Westin, Edson Zangiacomí Martínez, Eliana Borin Lopes Montemor

Acta Cytologica · 2005 · 24 citations · 18 references

Abstract

One hundred percent rapid rescreening is an efficient method of internal quality assurance in cervical smear diagnosis. It can reduce the false negative rate and therefore can provide greater certainty to women who have received negative results. Well-trained cytotechnologists are able to identify abnormal smears in 1-minute rapid rescreening.

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