A two-step quality-improvement intervention to address Pap smear quality at public health facilities in South Africa.

CONCLUSION: Although training in Pap smear collection using the Ayre spatula resulted in modest improvements in quality, facilities only achieved the DoH benchmark of a 70% adequacy rate after the introduction of the cytobroom. PMID: 30645958 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30645958?dopt=Abstract

Source: South African Medical Journal - January 17, 2019 Category: African Health Tags: S Afr Med J Source Type: research