Mass Screening - Standards
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

How to evaluate emerging technologies in cervical cancer screening?

29 Nov 2009 Excellent recommendations exist for studying therapeutic and diagnostic questions. We observe that good guidelines on assessment of evidence for screening questions are currently lacking. Guidelines for diagnostic research (STARD), involving ... Read more...

Rates of skin cancer screening and prevention counseling by US medical residents.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To determine factors related to residents' self-reported skill level for the skin cancer examination (SCE). DESIGN: Survey of residents in November 2003. SETTING: Four US residency programs. PARTICIPANTS: Medical residents in family ... Read more...

Implementing electronic health record-based quality measures for developmental screening.

26 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: The goal was to examine the current abilities and future potential of electronic health record (EHR) systems to measure childhood developmental screening and follow-up rates in primary care settings. METHODS: A group of pediatric ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mass Screening - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• How to evaluate emerging technologies in cervical cancer screening? 29 Nov 2009
• Rates of skin cancer screening and prevention counseling by US medical residents. 29 Sep 2009
• The care of patients with an abdominal aortic aneurysm: the Society for Vascular Surgery practice guidelines. 29 Sep 2009
• Implementing electronic health record-based quality measures for developmental screening. 26 Sep 2009
• Screening for prostate cancer remains controversial. 22 Sep 2009
• Implementation of and barriers to routine HIV screening for adolescents. 12 Sep 2009
• Compliance with and use of up-to-date National Academies of Medical Dispatch Medical Priority Dispatch System protocols in dispatch practice and research studies must be a requirement. 8 Sep 2009
• Outpatient screening endoscopy: why not the standard of care? Interview by Paul Adams. 30 Aug 2009
• Perinatal psychiatry: the challenges of making rational treatment decisions at the interface of psychiatry and obstetrics. 30 Aug 2009
• Reproducibility of classification and correction for verification bias as determinants of performance of Papanicolaou smear cytology in the screening setting: experience from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union cohort study. 30 Aug 2009
• Risk factors, prevention and early detection of prostate cancer. 30 Aug 2009
• New screening guidelines for colorectal cancer: a practical guide for the primary care physician. 30 Aug 2009
• Donor screening as a TRALI risk reduction strategy. 30 Aug 2009
• HIV testing in US EDs, 1993-2004. 30 Aug 2009
• Domestic violence. 30 Aug 2009
• Comments on the recent clinical guidance statement on HIV screening. 16 Aug 2009
• Comments on the recent clinical guidance statement on HIV screening. 16 Aug 2009
• Making sense of differing bowel cancer screening guidelines. 15 Aug 2009
• [Fine needle aspiration cytology of mammography screening] 15 Aug 2009
• [Guideline for the additional test positions according to the EPQC 4th Edition for Digital Mammography Systems] 10 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Mass Screening'

Definition: Organized periodic procedures performed on large groups of people for the purpose of detecting disease.

Descriptor UI: D008403

Alternative terms: Mass Screening; Mass Screenings; Screening, Mass; Screenings, Mass; Screening; Screenings;

Related Mesh Headings: Sensitivity and Specificity;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration;

Tree Number: E01.370.500; E05.318.308.250.580; N02.421.143.827.233.443; N02.421.726.233.443; N05.715.360.300.375.500; N06.850.520.308.250.580; N06.850.780.500;

Online Note: use MASS SCREENING to search MASS SCREENING TECHNICS 1966-67

History Note: 68; was MASS SCREENING TECHNICS 1963-67

Technical Notes: coord with disease/diag or /epidemiol or /prev