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Further, 80% of the heavy drinkers identified by the screening question were episodic rather than regular heavy drinkers.
Eighty percent of the heavy drinkers identified by the screening question were more moderate or non-drinkers for most of the week with just episodic (e.g. weekend) heavier drinking.
Hyperacusis was defined by the screening question "Do sounds cause you pain or physical discomfort?" which corresponds to " pain hyperacusis" according to the recent classification by Tyler and colleagues [ 2].
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As the telescoping rate was not this high for the other types of offences that did include a screening question, most of the telescoping will be caused by the lack of the screening question.
Status as a smoker was defined by a positive response to the screening question asking if participants had smoked cigarettes (any amount), at least once in the past 30 days.
In fact, the opposite could be the case: the screening question was commonly answered by the female head-of-household and, when negative, absence of the participant was not an issue.
We might have missed some cases by the screening questions (some persons not reporting cough may be sputum positive) or due to lack of sputum samples from subjects positive on screening questions resulting in under-estimation of prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Each subject who reported 10 hours per year or more of exposure to pesticides (in any combination of compounds) as defined by the screening questions, and a 15% random sample of the remainder was mailed a list of pesticides (both chemical and brand names) and an information letter.
In this study, all pregnant women living in the areas covered by the HDSS (n = 483) were identified by a screening question posted in the HDSS baseline data collection and then invited to participate.
Whereas the former cohort might be identified by a screening question about prior numbers of applications, there is no certain way to identify the latter group, who will likely not admit to taking shortcuts or refusing to use required personal protective equipment, because they might be incriminating themselves.
The level of functional HL was measured by one screening question.
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