Saturday 19 December 2009

Screening Programme Criteria

Wilson & Jugner Screening Programme Criteria (criteria all screening programmes should meet to provide maximum benefits to minimum cost*)
http://www.gp-training.net/training/tutorials/management/audit/screen.htm

*cost as in medical/social, as opposed to simply monetary cost

Making sense of screening - science leaflet
http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/PDF/MSOScreening.pdf

Added 21 Dec 09 - False/negative results in screening programmes and impacts (analysis)http://www.hta.ac.uk/fullmono/mon405.pdf

Added 1 Jan 2010 - The psychiatric effects of mass screening http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0033350672800234