{"id":2510,"date":"2009-03-08T12:18:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T12:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/episcr\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:10:25","slug":"episcr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/episcr\/","title":{"rendered":"Criteria for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Screening for a Risk Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong> Characteristics of the disease<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">1. Disease has serious consequences<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">2. Screening population has a high incidence* of disease<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">3. Risk factor is a good predictor of disease<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong>Characteristics of the test<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">4. Screening test has a high accuracy for detecting the risk factor<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">5. Screening test detects the risk factor before the critical point<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">6. Screening test causes little morbidity<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">7. Screening test is affordable and available<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong><br \/>\nCharacteristics of prevention<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">8. Prevention exists<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">9. Prevention is more effective than treatment for the disease<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">10. Prevention is not too risky or toxic<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">* Incidence is the rate of new occurrence of disease in a previously disease-free population over a particular time period.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<ol>\n<li>Obuchowski NA, Modic MT. Calcium scoring: criteria for evaluating its effectiveness. Semin Ultrasound CT MR. 2003 Feb;24(1):39-44. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/12708643\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Obuchowski NA, Graham RJ, Baker ME, Powell KA. Ten criteria for effective screening: their application to multi-slice CT screening for pulmonary and colorectal cancers.\u00a0AJR Am J Roentgenol 2001;176:1357 \u201362.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/11373191\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created: Jan 27, 2007<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[640],"tags":[16,15,1570,563,1569,1568,1567,1566,836,767,645],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epidemiology","tag-criteria","tag-criterios","tag-efectividad","tag-effectiveness","tag-epidemiology","tag-evaluar","tag-evaluating","tag-factor","tag-riesgo","tag-risk","tag-screening"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9142,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/9142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}