The phrase "admission screen" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to healthcare, education, or any system where an initial evaluation or assessment is conducted before allowing entry or participation.
Example: "Before proceeding with the application, please complete the admission screen to determine your eligibility."
Alternatives: "entry assessment" or "intake evaluation".
Staphylococcus aureus acquisition was defined by a negative admission screen followed by a later positive screen; or a positive admission screen followed by later culture of a genetically different strain.
Patients with a laboratory result indicating MRSA (screen or other specimen), with no history of MRSA and negative admission screen were deemed to have acquired MRSA.
Patients found to be MRSA positive by the admission screen (by culture or polymerase chain reaction) also were isolated, and decolonization treatment was started.
The demographics and the presenting problem are auto-populated from the admission screen (EDIS system) and the nurse then completes the injury information.
Patients with a positive admission screen are more likely to have the same resistant genus isolated from a nosocomial infection during the same admission spell, as compared with those negative on admission.
In addition, the cohort inclusion was restricted to the first admission from each patient over the 8-year period where the length of stay was greater than 24 hours and the admission screen had been conducted within the first 2 days of admission.
Admission screening identified 453 (3.6%) MRSA-positive patient ward episodes, with a further 268 (2.2%) acquiring MRSA.
Department of Health (England) policy is that screening for emergency admissions will be mandatory from 2011, in addition to existent elective admission screening.
Of these patients, 826 (13.4 %) were detected as ESBL-PE carriers on admission screening samples or acquired ESBL carriage while in the ICU.
The effect of reducing the turnaround time for MRSA results (2007) and the introduction of pre-emptive isolation (2008) was examined in a hospital with an established admission screening programme for MRSA.
In Ireland, the Department of Health and Children recommends admission screening of patients at increased risk of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), isolation of these patients until proven negative, and eradication of any MRSA identified.
