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Relationship between the cytologic reporting rate for high‐grade squamous intraepithelial lesion or worse and Papanicolaou smear sensitivity
Author(s) -
Llewellyn Huw
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.22772
Subject(s) - papanicolaou stain , medicine , squamous intraepithelial lesion , papanicolaou test , population , cytology , lesion , gynecology , dermatology , pathology , cervical intraepithelial neoplasia , cancer , cervical cancer , environmental health
The reporting rate for high‐grade squamous intraepithelial lesion or worse is used as a performance measure by the College of American Pathologists to assess the performance of laboratories reporting Papanicolaou smears. It has been recognized that the reporting rate is dependent on the ability of laboratories to identify smears as abnormal and on the underlying prevalence of the abnormalities in the population being screened. The importance of these 2 components is widely recognized but to the author's knowledge their relationship with the reporting rate has never been formally stated in the literature. This relationship can be described in simple mathematic terms using the algebraic descriptions of reporting rate and test sensitivity.