Screening: evidence and practice

by Raffle, Angela E.

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Full title :Screening : evidence and practice / Angela E. Raffle, Consultant in Public Health, the NHS Screening Programmes, Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol Medical School: Population Health Sciences, UK, Anne Mackie, Director of Programmes, UK National Screening Committee, Director of Screening Programmes, Public Health England, UK, J.A. Muir Gray, Programmes Director, UK National Screening Committee 1996-2007, Founding Director, the Oxford Centre for Triple Value Healthcare.

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"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 practised. Benefits and harms of screening must be measured in high quality trials, and the benefits of screening must be weighed alongside the negative side-effects. Concerns were raised about potential and actual harm arising when people without a health problem received dangerous and unnecessary investigations and treatments as a result of routine screening tests. Controversy raged, and it took some 50 years to achieve widespread recognition that evidence-based and quality assured programme delivery was essential, coupled with provision of

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019
Edition:2ª ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019

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Incluye referencias e índices.

The Physical Object

Description:XVII, 282 páginas : : ilustrado ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780198805984, 0198805985
oclc:on1322867913
LC Classification:RA427.5

1. How screening started -- 2. What screening is, and is not -- 3. What screening does -- 4. Measuring what a screening programme does -- 5. Implementing screening programmes -- 6. Quality assuring screening programmes -- 7. Day-to-day management of screening progammes for public health practitioners and managers -- 8. Making policy on screening programmes.