Journal of Medical Screening articles from January 2001

Journal of Medical Screening archives from January 2001

The definition of screening.(medical screening)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Second Report of the UK National Screening Committee [1] suggests a change in the definition of screening. The original definition adopted by the Committee was: Screening is the systematic application of a test or enquiry to identify...

Clinical validation of a new dimeric inhibin-A assay suitable for second trimester Down's syndrome screening.
January 1, 2001... Abstract Objective--To compare the Down's syndrome screening performance of a simplified dimeric inhibin-A assay (Diagnostic Systems Laboratories (DSL)) with an assay whose clinical utility has been established (Serotec). Setting--A...

Strategy linking several analytical methods of neonatal screening for sickle cell disease.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Abstract Background--The French national programme for the neonatal screening of sickle cell disease (SCD) was set up in 1995. This screening is targeted at newborn infants at risk. Over 5 years, 115 480 newborn infants were tested from 80...

Assessment of the effects of intensive training of community based staff in the screening of children for disorders of growth and puberty.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Abstract Introduction--The effects of an intensive training programme involving screening of children for disorders of growth and puberty for community based nursing and medical staff employed by Cardiff Community Healthcare NHS Trust were...

Relation of severity of maternal hypothyroidism to cognitive development of offspring.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Abstract Background--An association between maternal subclinical hypothyroidism and low intelligence quotient (IQ) in the offspring has recently been shown. Objective--To provide evidence for the causality of the association by...

Results from 10 years of breast screening in Wales.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Abstract Objective--To present results from 10 years of breast screening in Wales, including rates of interval cancers. Setting--All women aged 50-64 years in Wales; approximately 250 000 in each screening round. Methods--Breast...

Monitoring and evaluating the UK National Health Service Breast Screening Programme: evaluating the variation in radiological performance between individual programmes using PPV-referral diagrams.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Abstract A high quality breast cancer screening programme can be defined as one offering both a high cancer detection rate and a low referral rate of women for further investigation. Such a programme will have as few women as possible...

Hormone replacement therapy and the sensitivity and specificity of breast cancer screening: a review.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Abstract Background--The use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is prevalent in the age group invited to routine breast cancer screening in many countries. Previous publications have reported reduced sensitivity and specificity of...

Breast screening attendance: making better use of an appointment system.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Abstract Objectives--To improve the effective use of screening appointment time on mobile units and even out the daily workload. Setting--Ten sites screened by three Breast Test Wales mobile units between January and August 1999. ...

Computer modelling of the Swedish two county trial of mammographic screening and trade offs between participation and screening interval.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Abstract Objectives--A computerised model of the Swedish two county trial of mammographic screening was built to explore the applicability of deterministic group modelling for health policy analysis and to examine trade offs between...

A comparative study of the prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysms in the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Australia.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Collaborative Aneurysm Screening Study Group (CASS Group), comprising: Chichester Aneurysm Screening Group (UK); Viborg Aneurysm Screening Study (Denmark); Western Australian Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Program (Australia); Multicentre Aneurysm...

Neonatal screening for cystic fibrosis.(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Birth prevalence * Approximately 1 in 2500 live births in populations of Western European origin; similar prevalence in Jewish populations. General characteristics * Inheritance is autosomal recessive. * One in 25 people is a...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR.(Statistical Data Included)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2001... The Italian experience of a Pap test and speculoscopy based screening programme In their paper on the use of speculoscopy in cervical cancer screening Boselli and colleagues suggest that the association of speculoscopy to cytology "is the...

Antenatal and neonatal screening.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Edited by Nicholas Wald, Ian Leck. (Pp 591; [pound]75.00) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0 19 262826 7. For those involved in providing reproductive genetic services to women, this is a critically important book that should be...