In a meta-analysis, cervical cytology samples prepared on the SurePath platform show significantly fewer unsatisfactory smears than those prepared on the ThinPrep platform.
They found that the increase in the shortening associated with accumulation and final clavicular shortening of more than 18 mm in male patients, and of more than 14 mm in female patients, was significantly associated with an unsatisfactory result.
47 The data presented here show a significant difference between the different platforms with SurePath having a significantly lower rate of unsatisfactory samples.
Hill et al. [17] reported that unsatisfactory results were significantly associated with a clavicle shortening of 20 mm or greater.
We assumed that the imminent transition to liquid-based cytology in the UK will significantly reduce the rate of unsatisfactory smears, but will have a limited effect on the sensitivity of detection of high-grade disease (National Institute for Clinical Excellence, 2003).
Compared to Whites, Black Caribbeans (odds ratio (OR): 1.27, (95% confidence interval (95%CI) 1.04, 1.56), Nigerians and Ghanaians (OR: 1.56, 95%CI 1.24, 1.95) and Other Africans (OR: 1.33, 95%CI 1.04, 1.71) were significantly more likely to have unsatisfactory measures of FVC.
Patients with satisfactory results also had a mean correction of 96.6% in calcaneal height, significantly more than the patients with unsatisfactory results (90.0%, P = 0.001).
Six months after therapy significantly more patients (27%) recorded an unsatisfactory sexual life as compared to the pretreatment situation.
Patients with an unsatisfactory recovery had a significantly higher amount of leg pain, back pain and disability (all p values <0.01) compared with the group with a satisfactory recovery (table 3).
The risk of showing unsatisfactory communicative performance was significantly lower among the students selected by interviews (OR 0.32, CI95 0.12-0.83), compared to those selected on the basis of academic merits.
