In CAD patients, the STAI and SSAI are widely used for evaluation of anxiety symptom severity but screening properties of these instruments remain to be investigated [ 21, 22].
Referral for confirmatory diagnosis was based on the severity of the screening result (Table 1).
Patients aged 18 years or older with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or schizophreniform disorder, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV), were included in the study, provided they met a set of symptom severity criteria at screening.
A block randomisation procedure was used, with stratification based on site of recruitment and severity of psychological distress at screening.
This research describes the utility of screening for severity of symptoms prior to entry into clinical trials for symptom management in cancer.
The study was aimed to address whether changes in biochemical parameters associated with age of the patients correlate with depression severity measured with the use of screening tools.
They most often provide information about the prevalence and severity of the disease to be screened for, and rarely describe the absolute chances of individual benefit or harms.
Recently, non-invasive liver stiffness measurement (LSM) using transient elastography (FibroScan®, EchoSens, Paris, France) was introduced to assess the severity of liver fibrosis, and to screen the normal population for identifying people potentially at risk of underlying chronic liver disease [ 10- 12].
7 Moreover, there is some evidence, from data generated in screening programmes using FIT, that f-Hb is directly related to the severity of colorectal disease present in those screened.
The alcohol use disorders identification test 26 27 and the drug misuse screening test 28 29 assessed severity of use.
