Diagnostic tests
Resources for teaching LR etc
What screening aims to achieve and why evidence matters
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- Language/s English
- Target Audience Self-directed learning
- EBM Stage 0 - Why EBM?
- Duration <5 mins
- Difficulty Introductory
Key Concepts addressed
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The purpose of screening individuals or populations is to reduce the risk of death or future ill health from a specific condition
Ichalmers 11:55am Sun 19 Feb 2012
Replace 'costeffective' by 'cost-effective'
Marcel kanyinda 13:36pm Tue 05 May 2015
the thrirs requiment of the creening prohramme said it must be an effective and acceptable treatment for the condition: my question is as follows for HIV ans AIDS we all know there is not an effective and acceptable treatement available so far why doing the screening the programme
Douglas_Badenoch 13:45pm Tue 05 May 2015
@Douglas_Badenoch Hi Marcel I can think of two big reasons: 1) Prevention 2) Effective and acceptable treatments ARE available, e.g. see http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines cheers Douglas