A comparison of physician and patient reports of pap smear histories

We describe the level of agreement between patients and their physicians with respect to their use of the Pap smear, the symptoms present, and the smear results. The data derived from a case-control interview study of 181 newly diagnosed invasive squamous cell cervical cancer cases and 905 age-matched controls, a second case-control interview study of 250 cases of cervical dysplasia and 500 age-matched controls, and the medical records of …