noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
call screening
routine monitoring/screening/inspection
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the routine screening of milk for contamination
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cervical
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Your cervical screening card will tell you when your next smear is due.
genetic
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Today, genetic screening is expanding due to genetic engineering technology.
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One contentious area where ethical controversies abound concerns genetic screening and the detection of high risk groups.
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Screening for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can be done either by echocardiography or by genetic screening .
routine
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To deny older women access to routine screening is both contra-indicated and explicitly discriminatory.
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But routine screening of milk for contaminants should have disclosed higher lead levels by mid-October.
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Clearly this is different from the normal practice in routine neonatal screening .
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The germ, a strain of klebsiella which is resistant to most antibiotics, was found during routine screening .
■ NOUN
health
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It also has corporate health screening and medical diagnostic interests.
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The independent sector continues to grow, particularly in the fields of routine and day surgery and health screening .
procedure
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Mr Hurd said the council had endorsed the screening procedure .
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We need therefore to devise a screening procedure which singles out the problematic investigations.
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The Hong Kong Government decided to introduce screening procedures to distinguish refugees from those who were leaving only for economic reasons.
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Vision screening procedures , even when administered regularly and appropriately, are useless if the results from them are not followed up.
process
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Pearson would not get through the screening process .
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During the screening process , however, the Education Ministry made some changes which were criticized by liberals.
programme
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Discussion Our screening programme covered 0.77% of the total population of Tayside.
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The screening programme cost £10 per patient screened and £1000 per patient requiring laser treatment.
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One crucial criterion in justifying a screening programme is that intervention is more effective in presymptomatic disease than after symptoms have appeared.
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If we can show that screening reduces deaths by 20%, then a national screening programme is worthwhile.
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Although useful for an initial screening programme , their continued use needs to be evaluated.
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Nor is it clear how much health gain resulted from this screening programme .
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Once a screening programme has been introduced, continued research is needed to monitor and improve screening performance.
programmes
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Health authorities are advised that introduction of new screening programmes requires ethical research committee consent.
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One response to these statistics has been increasing demands for screening programmes .
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Population screening programmes may be worth while.
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We believe that screening programmes are still necessary to learn more about the condition.
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Both types of cancer are now subject to national screening programmes as early detection may prevent these cancers being fatal.
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It is not clear why the age of 65 was taken as the cut-off point for these screening programmes .
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Screening services are often fragmented, and the public may not have equal access to particular screening programmes .
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The difficult ethical issues that are often raised by screening programmes will also be grasped.
test
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There is, however, considerable pressure in many parts of the world to apply these methods as screening tests .
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Affected subjects may be detected either by simple visual fluorescence or colorimetric screening tests or by direct assay of enzyme activity.
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At each visit, symptoms and side effects were noted and blood was taken for haematological and biochemical screening tests .
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At the outset potential screening tests need to be rigorously evaluated.
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As work continues to reduce the gestation period at which screening tests can be conducted, the practical problems will decrease.
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It will include papers on all aspects of proposed new screening tests and on improvements to existing tests together with regular critical reviews.
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The choice in Britain is therefore between withholding all chemoprophylaxis and using a rapid screening test .
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Subjects - Those families whose son had a positive screening test .
■ VERB
provide
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In the current economic climate it is not justifiable to provide screening services of doubtful value.
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Secondly, employee referrals provide an efficient screening mechanism.
use
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The test may be used as a screening device, although it is relatively time-consuming to administer compared with other tests.
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The extra space would be used for screenings and counseling services, and should be done by March.
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The choice in Britain is therefore between withholding all chemoprophylaxis and using a rapid screening test.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Does your HMO offer cancer screening for women?
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The screening of potential jurors will continue next week.
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The director answered questions following the 7:30 screening .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At what age should endoscopic screening be done?
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But all they could do was draw a family tree and suggest early and aggressive screenings.
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Casting and screening in just a week.
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If we can show that screening reduces deaths by 20%, then a national screening programme is worthwhile.
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It is not an argument over which of the two screening strategies will confer the greater medical benefit.
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Mr Hurd said the council had endorsed the screening procedure.
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The screening programme cost £10 per patient screened and £1000 per patient requiring laser treatment.
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The issue is to estimate the marginal benefit from the increased frequency of screening examinations against the marginal increased cost.