Croft Emily, Barratt Alexandra, Butow Phyllis
Screening Test Evaluation Program, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
J Fam Pract. 2002 Oct;51(10):858-60.
We reviewed publications currently available about breast cancer screening to assess what information was provided about test accuracy and pretest and posttest disease probabilities, as this information is needed by consumers to make informed decisions about whether to undergo testing and to fully understand test results. A rating form was developed and used to assess 54 publications about their reports of breast cancer tests. A description of how the test is done was provided by almost all publications (93%). About half (48%) provided some information about possible adverse effects of the test. Eighteen percent of publications provided some (generally qualitative) information about test accuracy, and none provided quantitative information about the probability of disease given normal and abnormal test results.
我们查阅了目前可获取的有关乳腺癌筛查的出版物，以评估其中提供了哪些关于检测准确性以及检测前和检测后疾病概率的信息，因为消费者需要这些信息来就是否接受检测做出明智的决定，并充分理解检测结果。我们制定了一份评分表，用于评估54篇关于乳腺癌检测报告的出版物。几乎所有出版物（93%）都提供了检测方法的描述。约一半（48%）提供了有关检测可能产生的不良反应的一些信息。18%的出版物提供了一些（通常为定性的）关于检测准确性的信息，没有一篇提供关于检测结果正常和异常时疾病概率的定量信息。
