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Pap smears: Access to hospital outpatients of nongynecological services

Author(s) -

Kizilbash Mehdi,

Mettlin Curtis

Publication year - 1981

Publication title -

journal of surgical oncology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201

H-Index - 111

eISSN - 1096-9098

pISSN - 0022-4790

DOI - 10.1002/jso.2930180206

Subject(s) - medicine , contraindication , family medicine , population , health care , public health , primary care , medical emergency , nursing , environmental health , alternative medicine , pathology , economics , economic growth

At a comprehensive cancer center, evaluation of the first year's experience with routine Pap smears offered to 6,851 nongynecological outpatients showed that after exempting those with a recent smear, medical contraindication or preference for their personal physician, 19.5% comprising the underscreened population, was given a smear on the current visit. This approach provided comprehensive access on a cost‐effective basis. Conceivably, primary care community hospitals could also offer routine smears to their underscreened outpatient population in a systematic manner to expand impact on public health.

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