Trend analysis of the quality indicators for the Brazilian cervical cancer screening programme by region and state from 2006 to 2013

Table 2 Prevalence and prevalence ratio from 2006 to 2013, comparing the quality indicators using the South as a reference

Macro-region		Productivity rate^a		Unsatisfactory exams		Positivity index		ASC-US		HSIL
	P (%)	PR	P (%)	PR	P (%)	PR	P (%)	PR	P (%)	PR
South	17.08	1.0 (ref)	0.41	1.0 (ref)	1.91	1.0 (ref)	0.90	1.0 (ref)	0.26	1.0 (ref)
Southeast	16.42	0.96	0.65	1.59	2.98	1.56	1.53	1.70	0.28	1.08
Midwest	15.64	0.92	0.97	2.37	3.12	1.64	1.26	1.39	0.45	1.72
Northeast	17.02	0.99	1.89	4.60	2.17	1.14	0.80	0.88	0.29	1.12
North	14.13	0.83	1.64	3.98	2.60	1.37	0.92	1.02	0.43	1.67

Abbreviations: ASC-US Atypical Squamous Cells of Undetermined Significance, HSIL High-grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion, P prevalence, PR prevalence ratio, ref. reference value
^aOnly data until 2012 were available,

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