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Discover LudwigThe phrase "screening question" is correct and usable in written English
It typically refers to a question designed to filter out or screen out certain responses. Example: The online job application included a screening question to identify which candidates had the necessary qualifications.
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The screening question enquired into headache in the last year.
Participants answering "yes" to the headache screening question also reported their headache frequency.
Partial non-participants: Answering part of the questinonnaire, but not the headache screening question.
A screening question in order to permit more accurate dating is essential to reduce telescoping bias.
A screening question ascertained whether headache had occurred in the last year.
We also found that the screening question for CMSCs had good reliability [20].
The specificity of the screening question for headache was therefore 100%.
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.
The screening question was "Do you have recurrent headache", and the survey stopped when participants answered "No" to this question.
Recent research showed that the exclusion of such a screening question led to high telescoping (Reep 2013a, 2014).
The screening question should be neutral, unless a good reason exists for it to be otherwise, and reported verbatim.
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