'screening mechanism' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to an instrument or system designed to evaluate and filter for specific criteria, such as a job candidate's qualifications. For example, "The company has an extensive screening mechanism to ensure only the most qualified applicants are hired."
The database used to determine whether patients had ARDS was developed using a screening mechanism requiring mechanical ventilation.
Precisely how a screening mechanism would work at Strasbourg, however, is proving more problematic.
Ken Clarke last month explained he was working closely with the Swiss on introducing a screening mechanism for the court.
As a result, some argue that the LCA process is a relatively weak screening mechanism.
The advantage of the current system, under which most foreign-born science graduates have to apply for an immigration visa through their employer, is that it amounts to a screening mechanism.
The screening mechanism to keep money from going to suspected terrorists has so far weeded out just one person.The Americans still refuse to join the TIM club themselves.
The company, she said, has screening mechanisms to prevent fake postings, but "occasionally, things like this get through".
Some sites are specialized, while others, mainly those for technology workers, offer screening mechanisms to narrow the applicant field.
"By the same token, we have to have in place screening mechanisms that allow us to determine who the mad dogs are, quite frankly.
Executives with CBS, NBC, UPN and the WB said they had proper screening mechanisms to keep inappropriate advertisements from being shown to children and that they did not believe they needed to do more.
It offers three solutions: first, the need to reduce very significantly the number of cases that reach the court, by introducing new screening mechanisms; second, the need to reconsider the relief that the court is able to offer by way of just satisfaction; and third, the need to enhance procedures for the selection of well-qualified judges of the court.
