The greater than 20% chance of mistakenly ranking a non-screening exam as more likely to be screening than a screening exam is not sufficiently accurate for most research purposes.
Colonoscopy is the most accurate and most expensive screening exam.
Yet Hernandez had passed a psychological screening exam before he went pro.
School nurses and even teachers can be trained to do a 30-second screening exam for spinal abnormalities.
Dr. Koester, who conducts hundreds of the exams each year, urges examiners to perform an 11-part screening exam for musculoskeletal problems.
Some experts say the new technology will lead to earlier detection, if only by encouraging dentists to do a screening exam.
Non-native English speakers must pass the University's English screening exam before they can be offered a teaching assistantship.
Sigmoidoscopy does not view the entire colon, still requires that the patient take a prep, is often uncomfortable because of the lack of sedation and may not allow for polyp removal at the initial screening exam.
It's true that EMTALA [the 1986 law requiring that emergency rooms treat you regardless of insurance status] requires a medical screening exam and stabilization of any emergency medical conditions.
Many of the patients whom Dr. Neuman treats have problems interpreting medical results, viewing any lab value outside the normal range as a sign of serious illness, or are paralyzed with anxiety waiting for the outcome of a routine screening exam.
The screening algorithm combines the natural history model, the method tracking of tumor growth backward in time, the age group, the interval between screening exams, and the detection threshold of the screening exam to compute the joint distribution of tumor size and growth rate among screen-detected and interval patients.
