title: An international study of the interobserver variation between interpretations of vaginal smear criteria of bacterial vaginosis.
abstract: An international workshop on vaginal smear-based diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis was organized where 13 investigators scoring 258 slides with smears from vaginal fluid. Interobserver reproducibility of interpretations of Nugent scores, Hay/Ison scores and wet smear scores for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis was shown to be high. Detailed analysis of individual scoring results however indicated that basic standards of quality control to ensure robust individual readings of slides must be adhered to.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden. urban.forsum@imk.liv.se
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Forsum
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jakobsson
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Larsson
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Beverly
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bjørnerem
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Carlsson
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Csango
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Donders
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hay
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ison
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Keane
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: McDonald
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Moi
authors.forename: J-J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Platz-Christensen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schwebke
mesh_terms: D001431:Bacteriological Techniques / Q000592:standards; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015588:Observer Variation; D014626:Vaginal Smears / Q000592:standards; D016585:Vaginosis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology