Screening: Evidence and Practice

by Angela E Raffle, Anne MacKie, J a Muir Gray, et al.

Screening programmes involve the systematic offer of testing for populations or groups of apparently healthy people to identify individuals who may be at future risk of a particular medical condition or disease, with the aim of offering intervention to reduce their risk.

For many years, screening was practised without debate, and without evidence, but in the 1960s serious challenges were raised about many of the screening procedures then being...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198805985
• ISBN13: 9780198805984
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"