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MULTIPHASIC SCREENING—DEFINITION AND ASSESSMENT
Author(s) -
Rawson Graeme
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1972.tb47428.x
Subject(s) - successor cardinal , disadvantaged , resolution (logic) , medicine , disease , psychology , computer science , pathology , artificial intelligence , economics , economic growth , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Multiphasic screening is often stereotyped as a comprehensive series of systematized automated tests which seek to screen and detect disease on a logical basis before it becomes obvious to the patient or before a diagnosis in the normal course of events can be made. The use of the technique to provide detailed standardized data on patients who are already symptomatic and its potential as a possible successor to mobile mass X‐ray campaigns, particularly in cardio‐vascular patients, deprived and disadvantaged persons and high‐risk occupational‐group screening, are often overlooked. There is a disproportionate number of conflicting findings in the literature and these, specifically on evaluation, acceptance and economic benefits, await more critical research methods, rigorous analyses and careful examination of medical education implications for their ultimate resolution.