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Most women ages 64 to 66 did not meet criteria for stopping cervical screening despite meeting clinical guidelines age cutoff, a large retrospective study showed.
Analysis of a national insurance claims database found that 22.2% of almost 600,000 women met the criteria to stop cervical cancer screening, increasing only slightly to 34.2% of patients identified from records at a safety-net health center.
Two thirds of women in the claims database had insufficient data to fulfill the exit criteria, as did 56.7% of patients from the safety-net clinic, reported Rebecca B. Perkins, MD, of Boston University School of Medicine, and colleagues.
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