A more cost effective alternative to screening all patients would be to, guided by analyses like the ones in this paper, focus on high-risk units.
Since the screening step is the bottleneck of the overall procedure, researchers have considered the use of genetic selection systems as an alternative to screening.
These findings open the possibility of an alternative to screening for psychological distress.
It was also suggested that the public should be better educated about symptoms as an alternative to screening.
The frequency of sarcopenia in elderly hospitalized patients was high (1 in 5 elderly) and anthropometric equation can be a viable and inexpensive alternative to screening and programming intervention in this population.
One alternative to screening may be self-sampling, which may make cervical cancer screening more accessible to women not participating in the current screening program or those rarely contacting health-care centres, offering an important method for increasing cervical cancer screening coverage (Sellors et al, 2000; Wright et al, 2000; Agorastos et al, 2005; De Alba et al, 2008).
The scenario of cervical cancer prevention is open to marked changes, due to the widely recognised aetiological role of human papilloma virus (HPV) and due to the possibility of the future use of HPV vaccination as a radical alternative to screening; but the role of HPV testing as a possible screening tool should not be dismissed.
These included questions relating to a variety of topics, for example, influences of friends on child PA, parental perceptions of their child's activity, screen viewing behaviours of children and alternatives to screen viewing.
Participants in the intervention group also receive an activity pack containing suggestions and options for alternatives to screen-based activity.
No one study is going to answer these questions; a body of research is certainly needed to help incrementally advance our understanding of the benefits, potential drawbacks and alternatives to screening for distress in oncology populations.
