Screening (medicine)
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screening-medicine-185-2736623
title:
Screening (medicine)
text:
Screening, in medicine, is a strategy used to look for as-yet-unrecognised conditions or risk markers. This testing can be applied to individuals or to a whole population without symptoms or signs of the disease being screened. Screening interventions are designed to identify conditions which could at some future point turn into disease, thus enabling earlier intervention and management in the hope to reduce mortality and suffering from a disease. Although screening may lead to an earlier diagno
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Brief medical evaluation to detect unnoticed health problems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screening_(medicine)
date created:
2005-11-21T10:37:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T13:43:46Z
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