Despite the recent establishment of the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, and the consequently limited direct engagement of primary care in administering screening for colorectal cancer, there will inevitably be ongoing demands on GPs to provide information and advice about CRC screening.
A study was conducted to develop a short, easy to administer screening tool useful for stratifying women with unexplained menorrhagia for hemostatic testing for underlying bleeding disorders.
[ 15, 16] It is a self administered screening test for detecting poor mental health in the general population.
Symptoms of depression were measured using the depression subscale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) [ 25], a brief and easy-to-administer screening tool for assessing symptoms of anxiety and depression in medical populations.
Therefore, an economic and easily administered screening instrument for anxiety disorders can serve as an important first step towards the identification of psychopathology and indicate the need of treatment in otherwise undiagnosed children and adolescents.
28 To the extent that these instruments are valid, they can identify two types of people: those who already have diabetes whether or not they know it (hence the questionnaire may serve as a self administered screening tool for undiagnosed diabetes) and those at high risk of developing diabetes that is, it may also serve as a prediction tool for future diabetes.
In most cases, physicians and nurses can administer a screening for depressive symptoms and offer guidance about selecting a therapist or seeking counseling for particular issues.
Identifying children with childhood-onset neurodevelopmental problems (NDPs, defined here as autism spectrum disorders [ASDs], attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [AD/HD], tic disorders [TDs], learning disorders [LDs] and development coordination disorder), using easily administered screening instruments, is a prerequisite for epidemiological research.
There are today many established rating scales and clinical instruments to assess NDPs, but there is still a need for an easily administered screening tool that covers the whole field of developmental problems, and that assesses not only caseness, but also sub-threshold traits and overlapping conditions.
An overwhelming body of evidence suggests our criminal justice system has the capability of administering cost-effective screening for the disease of addiction, as well as spearheading intervention and recovery for its sufferers.
Table 3 shows R F values, color of spots, and detection limits for the selected seven most common corticosteroids after reaction with reagents 1 and 2. Reagent 2 can be administered for sensitive screening for the presence of corticosteroids in illegal cocktails.
