Quality of screening with conventional Pap smear in Austria – a longitudinal evaluation

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Table 1 **Number of Pap smears per laboratory* and year**

	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	Total
	17,224	10,175	10,941	19,061	17,222	74,623
	16,010	15,390	15,318	15,975	14,082	76,775
	**	18,282	18,637	19,488	21,655	78,062
	16,627	18,258	17,727	17,538	17,542	87,692
	**	19,085	22,657	24,607	24,618	90,967
	**	10,492	30,150	32,082	31,394	104,118
	20,065	20,360	23,829	29,224	33,365	126,843
	43,177	40,527	36,546	10,475	**	130,725
	**	47,057	45,095	47,383	48,345	187,880
	50,018	47,674	47,672	50,716	56,807	252,887
	59,511	59,804	62,862	64,043	65,524	311,744
	90,994	95,070	93,233	98,439	**	377,736
	77,712	74,627	74,632	80,108	72,605	379,684
	103,403	102,480	102,437	104,032	104,728	517,080
	175,171	172,457	170,132	168,697	164,656	851,113
Total	669,912	751,738	771,868	781,868	672,543	3,647,929

*Laboratories were identified by the number of specimens submitted. To safeguard anonymity the laboratories in Table 1 have no abbreviation, and the sequence of the laboratories in Tables 1 and 2 has been changed. Despite the loss of relevant information, this approach was necessary since non-anonymity might have discouraged laboratories from participating.
**no data available.

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