Objectives.—To measure the percentage of women with abnormal gynecologic cytology
who have follow-up within 1 year and to identify patient and laboratory characteristics
associated with higher percentages of follow-up. Design and Setting.—Retrospective
identification of patients with abnormal cervicovaginal cytology and identification of the initial
clinical follow-up activity during the 12 months following the cytologic diagnosis. Main
Outcome Measure.—Percentage of women receiving follow-up. Results.—Three hundred …

The article entitled ''Follow-up of Abnormal Gynecologic Cytology: A College of American
Pathologists Q-Probes Study of 16312 Cases From 306 Laboratories,''by Jones and Novis, 1
represents a landmark study in the ongoing effort to optimize gynecologic pathology
services in the United States. The study may well prove to be the most valuable effort to date
in the already distinguished efforts of the Q-Probe series. The key finding of the study is that
significantly more patients with recommendations for repeat smears received repeat smears …