An evaluation of human papillomavirus testing as part of referral to colposcopy clinics

Objective: To determine the usefulness of human papillomavirus (HPV) testing as a triage method for predicting which women referred to a colposcopy clinic were most likely to have histologically confirmed cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). Methods: Papanicolaou tests, ViraPap tests for HPV infection, and colposcopically directed biopsies were performed concurrently on 482 women referred to a student health colposcopy clinic