Sentence examples for as screening instrument from inspiring English sources

The World Health Organization (WHO) protocol designed to detect neurological disorders was used as screening instrument.

We found that socio-demographic and psychopathological factors hardly disturbed the IPDS as screening instrument.

Both scales demonstrated excellent validity as screening instrument for anxiety and depressive disorders respectively in clinical settings in Pakistan.

To our knowledge, this is the first study investigating the usefulness of the PHQ-9 and PHQ-2 as screening instruments in patients with migraine.

This might be the first study investigating the reliability and validity of the GAD-7 and GAD-2 as screening instruments of anxiety in patients with migraine.

Chest radiography and sputum cytology were extensively analysed for their potential as screening instruments in smokers in the 1970s.

These questionnaires were developed in the USA as screening instruments for sleep habits and problems in school-aged children.

Rather, our concern is to assess to what extent it can serve as a useful additional tool in the diagnostic process and as a screening instrument for AS.

The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) is commonly used as a screening instrument, as a continuous measure of change in depressive symptoms over time, and as a means to compare the relative efficacy of treatments.

This similar prevalence rate is important to the psychometric testing of Greek EPDS as a screening instrument, as predictive values are very much influenced by the prevalence of postnatal depression [ 42].

The overall accuracy of Greek EPDS, as a screening instrument can be described as the area under its ROC curve.