The phrase "as a screening device" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a tool or method employed to filter or evaluate something, often in contexts like assessments or tests.
Example: "The questionnaire was designed as a screening device to identify potential candidates for the study."
Alternatives: "as a filtering tool" or "as an evaluation method."
The fence delineated the property line, but at four feet tall, it fell short as a screening device.
Vatech America, a cone-beam manufacturer, does not support using its scanner as a screening device, said Travis Harrison, the company's director of business development.
The nolle prosequi thus serves as a screening device that enables the district attorney to exercise a measure of control over the criminal docket.
It appears this scheme is to act as a screening device to exclude those who do not demonstrate attributes of compassion from places on courses that lead to registration as a nurse.
One study found that over 30% of those who received a ration of subsidised rice and wheat were not poor, and about half of the poor received no ration at all.If work requirements serve simply as a screening device, separating the indigent from the indolent, it does not much matter what labourers are paid to do.
Potential employers can use age as a screening device when hiring job applicants, and this can be economically motivated.
The Herfindahl-Hirschmann Index, which measures the degree of concentration in an industry by squaring the market shares of firms in the industry and adding up the total, is nowadays dismissed as irrelevant, except as a preliminary screening device.
Some may view the lack of receptor specificity of [N-methyl-11C]mirtazapine as a disadvantage for PET neuroimaging, whereas we view the radioligand as a potential screening device for assessing multireceptor disorders in the living human brain.
Woodworth designed the first questionnaire to detect and measure abnormal behaviour; it served as a rough screening device for behavioral disorders.
The principal can better extract information from the agent by using the spread between the two decisions as a costly screening device.
We discuss the design's strengths as a programmatic screening device to weed out unpromising new treatments, its limitations and pitfalls, and a recent critique of the logic of the method.
