Review Question: We assessed studies comparing two tests to screen for cervical cancer: the HPV test (Human papillomavirus test) and the Pap test otherwise known as cervical smear or Papanicolaou test. The aim was to find out which test detects precancerous changes of the cervix more accurately. Read the Review*.

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M Kent Ranson, David B Evans

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Highlighted Review

This new review, published in September 2017 from the Cochrane Drugs and Alcohol Group examines research on the effect of needle syringe programmes (NSP) and opioid substitution treatment (OST) in reducing the risk of becoming infected with the hepatitis C virus. The objectives of the study were to assess the effects of needle syringe programmes and opioid substitution therapy, alone or in combination, for preventing acquisition of HCV in people who inject drugs. You can read the review for FREE.

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2016 Impact Factor for Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Each year in June, Clarivate Analytics publish the Impact Factors of all journals indexed in the Journal Citation Report. The 2016 Impact Factor for CDSR is 6.264, which describes the ratio of the number of reviews published during 2014 and 2015 (1,839) to the number of citations these reviews received in 2015 (11,520).

A review published in the CDSR in 2014 or 2015 was cited, on average, 6.264 times in 2016. The CDSR is ranked 14 of 154 in the Medicine, General & Internal category, the 5-Year Impact Factor increased from 6.665 to 7.084.
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For more information, you can access an Impact Factor fact sheet and full report.

* The aggregate Impact Factor for a subject category is calculated the same way as the Impact Factor for a journal, but it takes into account the number of citations to all journals in the category and the number of source-articles from all journals in the category.

** The number of journals included in the Medicine, General & Internal category in 2016 was 154.

*** The cited half-life is the median age of the papers that were cited in the current year, e.g. a cited half-life of 4.9 years means the citations made to CDSR in 2016, half were to papers over 4 years old.

**** The immediacy index is the average number of times the source-article is cited in the year it is published and indicates how quickly articles in a journal are cited.

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