IPHY 3490 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Prostate-Specific Antigen, Case Fatality Rate
13 Nov 2016
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Screening: the presumptive identification of unrecognized disease of defects by the application of tests, examinations, or other procedures that can be applied rapidly. Results indicate suspicion of a disease: examples: Multiphasic screening: the use of two or more screening tests together among large groups of people: information on risk facto, history of illness, and physiologic health, commonly used by employers. Mass screening: screening on a large scale of a total population groups regardless or risk status. Selective screening: screens subsets of the population at high risk for disease (more likely to yield true cases) Diagnostic test: to establish presence or absence or a disease. Target symptomatic or asymptomatic individuals with positive screening tests to confirm actual disease. Population or epidemiologic surveys: to gain knowledge regarding the distribution and determinants of diseases in selected populations (no benefit to the participant is implied) Epidemiologic surveillance: aims at the protection of community health.
