title: Establishment of an integrated management model for the secondary prevention of cervical cancer - an experience in taiwan hospital.
abstract: In the present study, secondary data analysis was utilized to evaluate the efficiency of the integrated management model (IMM) on the Pap smear test for screening of women's uterine cervical cancer. The data of female patients receiving a Pap smear test were collected both before (from July to December, 2006) and after (from January to June, 2007) introducing the IMM in a regional hospital in Tainan. The result revealed an increment of participation rate from 5.1% to 15.4% (p < 0.001) among the female patients in the OPD (out-patient department), although the post-IMM participation rate was still much lower than that of general hospital data in Taiwan. Since IMM has proved efficacious for the management of various diseases, improvement in our IMM for the female uterine cervical cancer's prevention and management is conceivable. Studies on influencing factors should be carried out to allow strategies for resolution of problems to be designed, documented and implemented.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Institute of Management, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C.
authors.forename: Yu-Hua
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Shuofen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hsu
authors.forename: Shih-Chieh
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: Chih-Ming
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Kung
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D019090:Case Management; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D065006:Papanicolaou Test; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014626:Vaginal Smears