Evaluating smartphone strategies for reliability, reproducibility, and quality of VIA for cervical cancer screening in the Shiselweni region of Eswatini: A cohort study.
Ramin AsgaryNelly StaderiniSimangele Mthethwa-HletaPaola Andrea Lopez SaavedraLinda Garcia AbregoBarbara RuschTombo Marie LuceLorraine Rusike PasipamireMgcineni NdlangamandlaElena BeideckBernhard KerschbergerPublished in: PLoS medicine (2020)
Our findings suggest that smartphone mentorship provided experiential learning to improve nurses' competencies and VIA reliability and reproducibility, reduced false positive, and introduced peer-to-peer education and quality control services. Local collaboration; extending services to remote populations; decreasing unnecessary burden to screened women, providers, and tertiary centers; and capacity building through low-tech high-yield screening are promising strategies for scale-up of VIA programs.