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World Health Organization Criteria for Large-Scale Screening Programs
Feb 18, 2017
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Mark Morgan
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World Health Organization Criteria for Large-Scale Screening Programs
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<-- (1) The condition sought should be an important health problem.
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<-- (2) There should be an accepted treatment for patients with recognized disease.
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<-- (3) Facilities for diagnosis and treatment should be available.
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<-- (4) There should be a recognizable latent or early symptomatic stage.
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<-- (5) There should be a suitable test or examination.
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<-- (6) The test should be acceptable to the population.
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<-- (7) The natural history of the condition, including development from latent to declared disease, should be adequately understood.
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<-- (8) There should be an agreed policy on whom to treat as patients.
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<-- (9) The cost of case-finding (including diagnosis and treatment of patients diagnosed) should be economically balanced in relation to possible expenditure on medical care as a whole.
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<-- (10) Case-finding should be a continuing process and not a "once and for all" project.
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score=(Q1)+(Q2)+(Q3)+(Q4)+(Q5)+(Q6)+(Q7)+(Q8)+(Q9)+(Q10)
out of 10 criteria are met.
References (Hide/Show)
Wilson, JMG, Jungner, G. Principles and Practice of Screening for Disease. World Health Organization. Public Health Papers (34) 1968.
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