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ASCCP Colposcopy Standards: Colposcopy Quality Improvement Recommendations for the United States

Edward J Mayeaux1, Akiva P Novetsky, David Chelmow

  • 11USC Department of Family and Preventive Medicine University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC; 2Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; 3Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center Cancer Center, Bronx, NY; 4Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA; 5Pima County Health Department, Tucson AZ; 6Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, Scotch Plains, NJ; 7Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD; 8Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Palmetto Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC; 9Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Women's Health, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ; 10Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; 11Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; 12Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM; 13Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO; 14Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Adult and Family Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, San Leandro, CA; and 15Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL.

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The American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology developed 11 quality indicators for colposcopy to improve cervical cancer prevention. These evidence-based guidelines aim to enhance best practices and reduce errors in colposcopic procedures.

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