Research studies on screening tests

Screening tests are done to diagnose asymptomatic disease in apparently healthy people with the aim to reduce mortality and morbidity from the disease. Certain criteria need to be fulfilled before we adopt population-level screening for any disease. Several biases exist in evaluating screening studi...

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Published in:Perspectives in clinical research 2022-07, Vol.13 (3), p.168-171
Main Authors: Aggarwal, Rakesh, Ranganathan, Priya, Pramesh, C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
diagnosis
mass screening
Medical diagnosis
Medical screening
Research methodology
Statistics
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Summary:Screening tests are done to diagnose asymptomatic disease in apparently healthy people with the aim to reduce mortality and morbidity from the disease. Certain criteria need to be fulfilled before we adopt population-level screening for any disease. Several biases exist in evaluating screening studies, and the ideal study design would be a randomized trial with hard endpoints such as mortality and morbidity.
ISSN:2229-3485
2229-5488
DOI:10.4103/picr.picr_111_22