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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"self-sampling"”.
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The Effect of Mailing HPV Self-sampling Kits to Women Underscreened for Cervical Cancer on Uptake of Preventive Health Services
… trial to examine the effect of mailing hrHPV self-sampling kits among women underscreened for cervical cancer. A total of 16,590 women were randomized to either a mailed hrHPV self-sampling kit intervention or usual care reminders to attend Papanicolaou (Pap) screening. Uptake of each …
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Cervical cancer studies on prevention and treatment
… at the median follow-up (p<0.0001).The vaginal self-sampling device that we validated showed good agreement with HPV analysis of liquid-based cytology (LBC) (kappa value 0.67 95% CI 0.53-0.81). When 1000 women who had not taken a cytology sample for over nine years were offered self-sampling at …
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The Social Context of Cervical Cancer Knowledge and Prevention Among Haitian Immigrant Women
… infections (STIs), including HPV, using a self-sampling medical device. Quantitative analysis of survey data indicates that prevalent STIs (Chlamydia) are significantly associated with feminine hygiene practices; however, HPV infection and cervical cancer are not associated with the …
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Dynamic, data-driven decision-making in revenue management
… algorithms using LP rounding and random sampling techniques, which result in a (1/2 - eps)- approximation for the correlated stochastic knapsack problem that is tight relative to the LP. In this work, we introduce a framework for designing self-sampling algorithms, which is also used in …
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Vaginal Microbiota : Sampling, Clinical Equivalence, and Combined Sequencing
… and comparability of seven different sampling strategies in a study cohort of ten women. We observed that several strategies, including self-sampling, were suitable for vaginal microbiota sampling. Next, we collected samples from 50 healthy Finnish women and through questionnaires, …
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Human Papillomavirus Infections and Human Papillomavirus Associated Diseases in Nigeria: Distribution, Determinants and Control
… in all HPV studies, and the reliability of self-reported history is often questioned, I present findings on the test-retest reliability of self-reported sexual behaviour history collected in my study. Having found that attrition levels were low and that self-reported sexual behaviour history …
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The value proposition of distributed satellite systems for space science missions
… unique capabilities related to scientific data sampling and collection were identified and defined. The three broad categories are fundamentally unique, analytically unique, and operationally unique capabilities. This work uses RSC to examine four case studies of DSS missions that achieve new …