SCREENING


Meaning of SCREENING in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

call screening

routine monitoring/screening/inspection

the routine screening of milk for contamination

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

cervical

Your cervical screening card will tell you when your next smear is due.

genetic

Today, genetic screening is expanding due to genetic engineering technology.

One contentious area where ethical controversies abound concerns genetic screening and the detection of high risk groups.

Screening for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can be done either by echocardiography or by genetic screening .

routine

To deny older women access to routine screening is both contra-indicated and explicitly discriminatory.

But routine screening of milk for contaminants should have disclosed higher lead levels by mid-October.

Clearly this is different from the normal practice in routine neonatal screening .

The germ, a strain of klebsiella which is resistant to most antibiotics, was found during routine screening .

■ NOUN

health

It also has corporate health screening and medical diagnostic interests.

The independent sector continues to grow, particularly in the fields of routine and day surgery and health screening .

procedure

Mr Hurd said the council had endorsed the screening procedure .

We need therefore to devise a screening procedure which singles out the problematic investigations.

The Hong Kong Government decided to introduce screening procedures to distinguish refugees from those who were leaving only for economic reasons.

Vision screening procedures , even when administered regularly and appropriately, are useless if the results from them are not followed up.

process

Pearson would not get through the screening process .

During the screening process , however, the Education Ministry made some changes which were criticized by liberals.

programme

Discussion Our screening programme covered 0.77% of the total population of Tayside.

The screening programme cost £10 per patient screened and £1000 per patient requiring laser treatment.

One crucial criterion in justifying a screening programme is that intervention is more effective in presymptomatic disease than after symptoms have appeared.

If we can show that screening reduces deaths by 20%, then a national screening programme is worthwhile.

Although useful for an initial screening programme , their continued use needs to be evaluated.

Nor is it clear how much health gain resulted from this screening programme .

Once a screening programme has been introduced, continued research is needed to monitor and improve screening performance.

programmes

Health authorities are advised that introduction of new screening programmes requires ethical research committee consent.

One response to these statistics has been increasing demands for screening programmes .

Population screening programmes may be worth while.

We believe that screening programmes are still necessary to learn more about the condition.

Both types of cancer are now subject to national screening programmes as early detection may prevent these cancers being fatal.

It is not clear why the age of 65 was taken as the cut-off point for these screening programmes .

Screening services are often fragmented, and the public may not have equal access to particular screening programmes .

The difficult ethical issues that are often raised by screening programmes will also be grasped.

test

There is, however, considerable pressure in many parts of the world to apply these methods as screening tests .

Affected subjects may be detected either by simple visual fluorescence or colorimetric screening tests or by direct assay of enzyme activity.

At each visit, symptoms and side effects were noted and blood was taken for haematological and biochemical screening tests .

At the outset potential screening tests need to be rigorously evaluated.

As work continues to reduce the gestation period at which screening tests can be conducted, the practical problems will decrease.

It will include papers on all aspects of proposed new screening tests and on improvements to existing tests together with regular critical reviews.

The choice in Britain is therefore between withholding all chemoprophylaxis and using a rapid screening test .

Subjects - Those families whose son had a positive screening test .

■ VERB

provide

In the current economic climate it is not justifiable to provide screening services of doubtful value.

Secondly, employee referrals provide an efficient screening mechanism.

use

The test may be used as a screening device, although it is relatively time-consuming to administer compared with other tests.

The extra space would be used for screenings and counseling services, and should be done by March.

The choice in Britain is therefore between withholding all chemoprophylaxis and using a rapid screening test.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Does your HMO offer cancer screening for women?

The screening of potential jurors will continue next week.

The director answered questions following the 7:30 screening .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At what age should endoscopic screening be done?

But all they could do was draw a family tree and suggest early and aggressive screenings.

Casting and screening in just a week.

If we can show that screening reduces deaths by 20%, then a national screening programme is worthwhile.

It is not an argument over which of the two screening strategies will confer the greater medical benefit.

Mr Hurd said the council had endorsed the screening procedure.

The screening programme cost £10 per patient screened and £1000 per patient requiring laser treatment.

The issue is to estimate the marginal benefit from the increased frequency of screening examinations against the marginal increased cost.

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