Medical screening: to be or not to be
WHAT IS MEDICAL SCREENING? Worldwide chronic diseases have become a major cause of suffering, disability and mortality. When patients are diagnosed as a result of the appearance of symptoms, it is often too late and treatment options are limited. Hoping that early diagnosis and early treatment can r...
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Published in | Chinese medical journal Vol. 123; no. 14; pp. 1948 - 1951 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Department of Administration and Logistics Management, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China%Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
01.07.2010
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Summary: | WHAT IS MEDICAL SCREENING?
Worldwide chronic diseases have become a major cause of suffering, disability and mortality. When patients are diagnosed as a result of the appearance of symptoms, it is often too late and treatment options are limited. Hoping that early diagnosis and early treatment can retard or stop disease progression, medical screening is proposed as a secondary prevention method in which people without specific medical complaints are invited to undergo interventions to identify and modify risk factors, or to find disease early in its course so that early treatment prevents further severe complications. |
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ISSN: | 0366-6999 2542-5641 |
DOI: | 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2010.14.022 |