Journal of Medical Screening articles from March 22 2004

Journal of Medical Screening archives from March 22 2004

Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms: the effects of age and social deprivation on screening uptake, prevalence and attendance at follow-up in the MASS trial.(Original Paper)
March 22, 2004... Objectives/setting: The effectiveness of screening programmes may be improved by knowledge of factors affecting screening uptake, disease prevalence and attendance for follow-up. Data from the Multicentre Aneurysm Screening Study (MASS) are...

Neonatology & laboratory medicine.
March 22, 2004... Anne Green, Imogen Morgan, and Jim Gray Edited by Beverly Harris, William Marshall London: Association of Clinical Biochemists, Venture Publications, 2003 ISBN 0 902429 41 8, [pounds sterling]30.00 'Neonatology for the...

Factors affecting cervical screening uptake in prisoners.(Short Report)
March 22, 2004... Imprisoned women are at increased risk of cervical cancer but less likely to have been screened for this disease. There is very little information on the situation in prisons in the UK but this study indicates that, as anticipated, these women...

Tolerability of transvaginal ultrasonography as an ovarian cancer screening test.(Original Paper)
March 22, 2004... Objective: To evaluate the acceptability of transvaginal ultrasonography as a screening tool. Design: Prospective survey of women attending for screening within a randomised controlled trial. Setting: University Hospital in Teesside....

The adequacy of measurement of short and long-term consequences of false-positive screening mammography.(Original Paper)
March 22, 2004... J Med Screen 2004;11:39-44 Objectives: The aim of this study is to review quantitative studies on women's experiences of consequences of false-positive screening mammography to assess the adequacy of the most frequently used instruments...

Breast screening outcomes in women with and without a family history of breast and/or ovarian cancer.(Original Paper)
March 22, 2004... Objectives: To compare breast screening outcomes between women with a moderate or strong family history of breast and/or ovarian cancer with those without such a history. Setting: The Ontario Breast Screening Programme (OBSP) is a...

Influence of abnormal screens on delays and prognostic indicators of screen-detected breast carcinoma.(Original Paper)
March 22, 2004... J Med Screen 2004;11:28-31 Background: Delay to diagnosis following an abnormal screening result is associated with morbidity such as anxiety, but its effect on prognosis is unknown. Methods: Using data from the Somme area breast...

Overdiagnosis in screening: is the increase in breast cancer incidence rates a cause for concern?(Original Paper)
March 22, 2004... Objectives: To estimate the degree of overdiagnosis of breast cancer in a mammographic screening programme. Setting: A mammography service screening programme in Florence, Italy. Methods: We studied the incidence of breast cancer in...

Self-sampling in screening to reduce mortality from colorectal cancer: a qualitative exploration of the decision to complete a faecal occult blood test (FOBT).(Original Paper)
March 22, 2004... Objective: To explore beliefs that might impact upon public reactions to a proposed population level faecal occult blood test (FOBT) screening invitation and acceptability of completing an FOBT home self-sampling kit. Methods: Four focus...

Cost-effectiveness of screening for colorectal cancer: evidence from the Nottingham faecal occult blood trial.(Original Paper)
March 22, 2004... Objectives: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of faecal occult blood (FOB) screening for colorectal cancer within the Nottingham trial. Setting: A randomised controlled trial (1981-present) of 153,000 subjects, of whom approximately half...

Diagnostic effectiveness of simultaneous thyroxine and thyroid-stimulating hormone screening measurements. Thirteen years' experience in the northeast Italian screening programme.(Original Paper)
March 22, 2004... Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and thyroxine (T4) measurements at neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism, we compared our false-negative results with those we would have obtained if we...

The performance of blood pressure and other cardiovascular risk factors as screening tests for ischaemic heart disease and stroke.(Original Paper)
March 22, 2004... This paper summarises the main evidence and conclusions relating to using blood pressure measurement as a screening test to identify people who will develop ischaemic heart disease (IHD) or stroke, as recently published in a Health Technology...

Live long and prosper: a mass strategy for treating the factors associated with ischaemic heart disease and stroke.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... In the 1950s and 1960s a debate raged between Professor (later Sir) George Pickering, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, and Professor Robert (later Lord) Platt, Professor of Medicine in Manchester. (1) Pickering maintained that people...