Publications by authors named "Claudia Imolesi"
Background: The European guidelines for quality assurance in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening recommend that interval cancer rate be expressed as a proportion of background incidence rate.
Aim: To determine the crude and adjusted proportional incidence of interval CRC in an Italian regional two-yearly faecal immunochemical test (FIT) screening programme.
Methods: The programme (year of implementation, 2005) is targeted at over 1,000,000 people aged 50-69 years.
Objectives: to increase participation of immigrant women at cervical cancer screening programmes.
Design: pre-post study to evaluate the efficacy of recall by phone call in immigrant women.
Setting And Participants: 6,133 immigrant women in Cesena (Emilia-Romagna Region, Northern Italy) who have never made a Pap test in the last three years.