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QUESTION: Which strategies increase participation rates among women invited to community breast cancer screening activities or mammography programmes?
Data sources
Published and unpublished trials were identified by searching Medline (1966–2000), Central Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (issue 1, 2000), and EMBASE/Excerpta Medica (1988–99); searching the Euref Network database to identify reports and letters to the European Screening Breast Cancer Program's coordinators; reviewing reference lists of relevant studies and meta-analyses; and contacting authors.
Study selection
Randomised or clinical controlled trials were included if they assessed the effect of a strategy or combination of strategies for recruiting women into community breast screening activities or programmes compared with no active intervention, and women were identified from population databases.
Data extraction
Data were extracted on methods (duration, loss to follow up, …
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Source of funding: no external funding.
For correspondence: Dr X Bonfill, Centro Cochrane Iberoamericano, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Casa de Convalescéncia, Sant Antoni M Claret 171, Barcelona, Catalonia Spain 08041. Xbonfill{at}hsp.santpau.es