From Sarah Feldman: Making sense of cervical cancer screening guidelines

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22111669

N Engl J Med. 2011 Nov 23. [Epub ahead of print]
Making Sense of the New Cervical-Cancer Screening Guidelines.
Feldman S.
From the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston.

"Health care is a limited resource, and providing the best care at the best price will become increasingly important. We need to use and understand actual data about risk and the long-term effects and costs of various strategies. Experts are often in the best position to review the data and make recommendations, but different expert panels may interpret data differently and emphasize different results in making their decisions. And even with the best consensus guidelines, some clinical judgment and personalized attention to each patient remains necessary."