Sentence examples for a two stage screening from inspiring English sources

Further cost-savings can be achieved if a two stage screening procedure is used and there are some known, relatively inexpensively collected, pre-screening information.

The research design involved a manual analysis of all articles where a two stage screening process was undertaken to ascertain: firstly, whether an article was based on the mining context; and secondly, where it addressed sustainability accounting and reporting.

From June 2000 to December 2002 we used a two stage screening procedure to recruit potential participants with a prevalent major depressive disorder.

For example, in neonatal screening for PKU and hypothyroidism the test characteristics are set to a high sensitivity with the possibility of confirmation by a blood test of all positive cases[ 23] Such a two stage screening is probably not suitable for the diagnosis of acute infectious diseases such as dengue.

Depression was measured in a two stage screening-procedure starting with a questionnaire-based screening (German version [ 26] of the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) [ 27], followed by the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) [ 22] for those patients who were screened positive.

Methods: A three stage screening design that included the use of structured interview instruments (CIDI and SCAN), key informants, and clinical assessment by psychiatrists was employed for case identification.

Fourteen bibliographic databases and seven humanitarian study databases/websites were searched and a four stage screening process was followed.

Under initial assumptions, neonatal screening (using an immunoreactive trypsin/DNA two stage screening protocol) costs £5,387 per infant diagnosed, or £1.83 per infant screened (1998 costs).

The optimum threshold for prescreening and screening cut-offs are a = 5 and b = 5.8 under the two stage screening procedure.

Compared with the single stage screening procedure, the cost saving from the two stage screening procedure is $10,500 (or 8.9%).

In our simulation, we investigate both empirical size and power of the resulting one stage and two stage screening procedures.