Linda P. Engelstad

TL;DR: Baseline data for women ages 18 to 74 years showed that levels of screening were higher than national averages for Latina, white, and black women but lower for Chinese and Vietnamese women, and the importance of education and insurance in obtaining recommended screening regardless of race/ethnicity.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that an aggressive follow- up strategy significantly improves the rate of both initial follow-up and diagnostic resolution of abnormal Pap smears among low-income women with atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance and atypicals glandular cells of Undetermined significance when compared with traditional care.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that health care providers are substantially overtreating women who are gonorrhea and chlamydia negative, and one-third of disease-positive women are not treated on initial visit and the majority of undertreated patients are not returning for subsequent treatment.

TL;DR: An outreach intervention is highly effective at increasing follow-up of abnormal Pap smears in a public hospital setting and institutions offering cervical cancer screening to low-income, high-risk women should consider the use of outreach workers to reduce loss to follow- up.

TL;DR: The Pathways surveys are described, the challenges encountered in question translation are summarized, an adapted approach to translation is presented, and lessons learned throughout this process are presented.