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Journal of Medical Screening is concerned with all aspects of medical screening, particularly the publication of research that advances screening theory and practice. The journal aims to increase awareness of the principles of screening (quantitative and statistical aspects), screening techniques and procedures and methodologies from all specialties. An essential subscription for physicians, clinicians and academics... View full journal description

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The co-creation of a document to guide the use of self-sampling for human papillomavirus screening in Italy

  • Laura Bonvicini
  • Giusy Iorio
  • Luca Ghirotto
  • Noemi Auzzi
  • Marc Bardou
  • Rikke Buus Bøje
  • Pia Kirkegaard
  • Paola Mantellini
  • Paolo Giorgi Rossi
  • Italian Collaborative User Board Working Group
  • CBIG-SCREEN Consortium
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Equity challenges in bowel cancer screening: A decade of spoilt faecal immunochemical test kit data in New Zealand

  • Chey G Dearing
  • Anita Jagroop-Dearing
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Universal newborn hearing screening in Malaysian public hospitals: A national evaluation of coverage, quality indicators, and outcomes (2022–2023)

  • Siti Aminah Kamaludin
  • Rafidah Mazlan
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Cell-free DNA screening for sex chromosome aneuploidy in 67,099 pregnancies: A retrospective analysis

  • Yiqing Yu
  • Yan Lü
  • Xiya Zhou
  • Yulin Jiang
  • Na Hao
  • Mengmeng Li
  • Xueting Yang
  • Juntao Liu
  • Qingwei Qi
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Benefits and harms of breast cancer mammography screening for women at average risk of breast cancer: A systematic review for the European Commission Initiative on Breast Cancer

  • Carlos Canelo-Aybar
  • Diogenes S Ferreira
  • Mónica Ballesteros
  • Margarita Posso
  • Nadia Montero
  • Ivan Solà
  • Zuleika Saz-Parkinson
  • Donata Lerda
  • Paolo G Rossi
  • Stephen W Duffy
  • Markus Follmann
  • Axel Gräwingholt
  • Pablo Alonso-Coello
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A novel mobile phone application for infant stool color recognition: An easy and effective tool to identify acholic stools in newborns

  • Roberta Angelico
  • Daniela Liccardo
  • Monica Paoletti
  • Andrea Pietrobattista
  • Maria S Basso
  • Antonella Mosca
  • Samira Safarikia
  • Chiara Grimaldi
  • Maria C Saffioti
  • Manila Candusso
  • Giuseppe Maggiore
  • Marco Spada
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Folic acid and neural tube defects: Discovery, debate and the need for policy change

  • Nicholas J Wald
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Engagement barriers and service inequities in the NHS Breast Screening Programme: Views from British-Pakistani women

  • Victoria G Woof
  • Helen Ruane
  • Fiona Ulph
  • David P French
  • Nadeem Qureshi
  • Nasaim Khan
  • D Gareth Evans
  • Louise S Donnelly
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Test accuracy of artificial intelligence-based grading of fundus images in diabetic retinopathy screening: A systematic review

  • Zhivko Zhelev
  • Jaime Peters
  • Morwenna Rogers
  • Michael Allen
  • Goda Kijauskaite
  • Farah Seedat
  • Elizabeth Wilkinson
  • Christopher Hyde
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Strong association between reduction of late-stage cancers and reduction of cancer-specific mortality in meta-regression of randomized screening trials across multiple cancer types

  • James Y Dai
  • E Georg Luebeck
  • Ellen T Chang
  • Christina A Clarke
  • Earl A Hubbell
  • Nan Zhang
  • Stephen W Duffy
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Artificial intelligence for triaging of breast cancer screening mammograms and workload reduction: A meta-analysis of a deep learning software

  • Debora Xavier
  • Isabele Miyawaki
  • Carlos Alberto Campello Jorge
  • Gabriela Batalini Freitas Silva
  • Maxwell Lloyd
  • Fabio Moraes
  • Bhavika Patel
  • Felipe Batalini
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Cancer screening programs in Japan: Progress and challenges

  • Chisato Hamashima
  • Hirokazu Takahashi
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