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dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-27T08:52:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-11-27T08:52:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ellul, I. C. (2018). UK's breast cancer screening glitch. The Synapse : the Medical Professionals' Network, 17(3), 3. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/36747 | |
dc.description.abstract | Last May, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced that 450,000 women between the ages of 68 and 71 in the UK failed to receive invitations for a final routine breast cancer screening. Of note, women in the UK from the age of 50 who are registered with a family doctor are automatically invited for screening with a letter every three years until their 71st birthday. Patients cannot ask for an appointment themselves until that age; after that, screening requests can be made every three years. As a result of the 450,000 failed invitations it has been estimated that up to 270 women succumbed to the disease. This gross mistake spanned over a period of almost ten years, between 2009 and 2017. The first question is posed … who is to blame? To put it mildly, a computer algorithm failure, involving the programming of people’s ages. The second question arises naturally … how was this glitch revealed? Following an upgrade to the breast screening invitation IT system, which allowed for improved data on the actual ages of the women receiving screening invitations. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Medical Portals Ltd. | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Editorials | en_GB |
dc.subject | Breast -- Cancer -- Imaging | en_GB |
dc.subject | Breast -- Cancer -- Great Britain | en_GB |
dc.subject | Medicine -- Data processing | en_GB |
dc.title | UK's breast cancer screening glitch | en_GB |
dc.type | editorial | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | N/A | en_GB |
dc.publication.title | The Synapse : the Medical Professionals' Network | en_GB |
dc.contributor.creator | Ellul, Ian C. | |
Appears in Collections: | The Synapse, Volume 17, Issue 3 The Synapse, Volume 17, Issue 3 |
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