Rationale and development of an on-line quality assurance programme for colposcopy in a population-based cervical screening setting in Italy

Table 1 Colposcopic variables for the quality assurance programme

* The four categories of the variable ‘colposcopic impression’ were equivalent to those of the International Federation for Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy (IFCPC) classification of 2002, namely: normal colposcopic findings; abnormal colposcopic findings, minor changes; abnormal colposcopic findings, major changes; and colposcopic features suggestive of invasive cancer [37].
† Correctness of biopsy site according to the programme Steering Committee's judgment.

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