Reem A Mustafa, Nancy Santesso, Rasha Khatib, Ahmad A Mustafa, Wojtek Wiercioch, Rohan Kehar, Shreyas Gandhi, Yaolong Chen, Adrienne Cheung, Jessica Hopkins, Bin Ma, Nancy Lloyd, Darong Wu, Nathalie Broutet, Holger J Schünemann
BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer screening is offered to women to identify and treat cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). OBJECTIVES: To support WHO guidelines, a systematic review was performed to compare test accuracy of the HPV test, cytology (cervical smear), and unaided visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA); and to determine test accuracy of HPV and colposcopy impression. SEARCH STRATEGY: Medline and Embase were searched up to September 2012, and experts were contacted for references...
March 2016: International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics