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Complaining about quality assurance in gynecologic cytology
Author(s) -
Renshaw Andrew
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
cancer cytopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.22771
Subject(s) - medicine , squamous intraepithelial lesion , cytopathology , disease , cytology , population , test (biology) , gynecology , quality assurance , family medicine , cancer , pathology , cervical intraepithelial neoplasia , cervical cancer , environmental health , paleontology , biology , external quality assessment
In this issue of Cancer Cytopathology , Dr. Llewellyn demonstrates that reporting rates of high‐grade squamous intraepithelial lesion and worse are dependent on both the sensitivity of the test and the prevalence of the disease in the population being tested. Although it is simple, straightforward, and direct, Dr. Renshaw believes that, at its core, the article is not so much a proof than a restatement of the definition of sensitivity and why this is different than the apparent rate of disease reported by a test.