BMJ 1995;310:1004 (15 April)

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Uptake of breast screening

Accurate addresses will improve uptake rates

EDITOR,--R Rudiman and colleagues report no significant correlation between uptakes of breast screening and cervical screening in Grampian, which is an area with less deprivation than other Scottish health boards and high uptakes of screening.1 We have compared uptakes of breast screening and cervical screening in 156 practices in east London, a highly deprived inner city area, in contract with City and East London Family Health Services Authority. The tables shows the data. Like Rudiman and colleagues, we found that the uptake of breast screening was consistently lower than the uptake of cervical screening. Unlike them, however, we did find a significant positive correlation between the two rates (r=0.51 (95% confidence interval 0.38 to 0.62), P<0.01). 


Comparison of uptake of breast screening in prevalence
round completed in 1992 and uptake of cervical screening
in the 5.5 years before 30 June 1993 in 156 practices . . . [Full text of this article]


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Comparison of uptake of breast screening, cervical screening, and childhood immunisation
R Rudiman, F J Gilbert, and L D Ritchie
BMJ 1995 310: 229. [Full Text]

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