title: [Guidelines for the evaluation of internal quality control of smears for screening of uterine cancer in France in the structures of Pathologic Anatomy and Cytology. French Association for Quality Assurance in Pathologic Anatomy and Cytology (AFAQAP)--Commission for cervical smears].
abstract: A national organized mass-screening effective programme is the only way to reduce the risk of cervical cancer, if properly organized and correlated with a system of Quality Assurance. Since 1900, an Association for Quality Assurance was created by the French pathologists, named "AFAQAP". These pathologists thus demonstrated their interest in this kind of action that should be effective if women and clinicians are also implied. The pathologists have concluded the first part of their programme with these French guidelines for internal quality control of pap smears.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Albuisson
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Anger
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Baron
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cartier
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dorne
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dubois-Gordeff
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hassoun
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jouannelle
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Labbé
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Locquet
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Marsan
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Michiels-Marzias
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Molinié
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mottot
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mueller
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Vacher-Lavenu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vincent
authors.forename: P N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Vuong
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D065006:Papanicolaou Test; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D014626:Vaginal Smears / Q000592:standards*