Agenda of Workshop "Guidelines on Cervical Cancer Screening" on 25.-29. September 2001 in Ormylia/Greece

Meeting place:    Ormylia / Greece, "Centre of Panagia Philanthropini" which is located at the monastery "M. Evangelismos", between Ormylia and Vatopedi.

Contact person:    Brother Charles S. Anthony
                            Tel: 0030 - 371 - 41 498
                            Fax: 0030 - 371 - 42 050
                            E-mail: brcharlie@the.forthnet.gr

Tuesday 25. September 2001
10:00 – 12:00 Internal Meeting of the Network
Financial Report of the Co-ordinator
Discussions between partners and co-ordinator
(individual questions and requests of the partners, open problems, etc)
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 Start of the Workshop
14:15 Welcome (by U. Schenck)
14:30 – 16:30 Plenary Session on Cervical Cancer Screening
Updating the European Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Cervical Cancer Screening (by U. Schenck)
The Human Side of Quality Control (by C. S. Anthony)

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Wednesday 26. September 2001
9:00 – 10:00 Session 1: Existing Guidelines (by N. Segnan)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00 Session 2: Discussion of the existing guidelines
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Session 3: Improvement approaches for the Guidelines
Defining Guidelines for Quality Assurance (QA) for cervical cancer screening (by N. Segnan)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30 Discussions (improvement strategies, topics,..)

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Thursday 27. September 2001
9:00 – 10:00 Session 4: Invited presentations on guideline improvements
Liquid based cytology in cervical screening, assessment of evidence in the literature (by A. Hanselaar)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00 Session 5: Invited presentations on guideline improvements
Monitoring of the Swedish cervical cancer screening program (by P. Sparén)
Quality control in gynaecological cytology in Switzerland (by M. Tötsch)
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Session 6: Invited presentations on guideline improvements
Prevalence of squamous abnormalities in ECC- smears as compared to adequate smears (by A. Hanselaar)
The development of products to meet the training needs of personnel involved in cervical cancer screening and their introduction into the workplace (by A. Aldovini)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30 Discussions

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Friday 28. September 2001
9:00 – 10:00 Session 7: Partner Presentations on guideline improvements
Terminology and appropriate reporting scheme (by U. Schenck)
Toward an European Terminology and Reporting Scheme (by D. Beccati, S. Rossi)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00 Session 8: Partner Presentations on guideline improvements
Technical guidelines on cervical cancer screening in Belgium (by M. Arbyn)
Quality of Cervical Cancer Screening needs high compliance of women and good evaluation (by M. Fender)
Cervical Cancer Screening in Greece (by P. Karakitsos)
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Session 9: Partner Presentations on guideline improvements
Some aspects of cervical cancer screening guidelines in Finland (by A. Anttila)
Monitoring of cervical screening by process indicators: Is a standard system of indicators possible at a European level ? (by G. Ronco)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30 Discussions

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Saturday 29. September 2001
9:00 – 10:00 Panel Discussion on guideline improvements
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00 Conclusions

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