World Health Organization Criteria for Large-Scale Screening Programs

World Health Organization Criteria for Large-Scale Screening Programs
[select name="Q1" value="yes=1|no=0"] <-- (1) The condition sought should be an important health problem.
[select name="Q2" value="yes=1|no=0"] <-- (2) There should be an accepted treatment for patients with recognized disease.
[select name="Q3" value="yes=1|no=0"] <-- (3) Facilities for diagnosis and treatment should be available.
[select name="Q4" value="yes=1|no=0"] <-- (4) There should be a recognizable latent or early symptomatic stage.
[select name="Q5" value="yes=1|no=0"] <-- (5) There should be a suitable test or examination.
[select name="Q6" value="yes=1|no=0"] <-- (6) The test should be acceptable to the population.
[select name="Q7" value="yes=1|no=0"] <-- (7) The natural history of the condition, including development from latent to declared disease, should be adequately understood.
[select name="Q8" value="yes=1|no=0"] <-- (8) There should be an agreed policy on whom to treat as patients. 
[select name="Q9" value="yes=1|no=0"] <-- (9) The cost of case-finding (including diagnosis and treatment of patients diagnosed) should be economically balanced in relation to possible expenditure on medical care as a whole.
[select name="Q10" value="yes=1|no=0"] <-- (10) Case-finding should be a continuing process and not a "once and for all" project.

[calc memo="result" value="score=(Q1)+(Q2)+(Q3)+(Q4)+(Q5)+(Q6)+(Q7)+(Q8)+(Q9)+(Q10)"] out of 10 criteria are met.

[checkbox memo="References (Hide/Show)" name="footnotes" value=""][conditional field="footnotes" condition="(footnotes).isNot('')"][link url="http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/37650/17/WHO_PHP_34.pdf" memo="Wilson, JMG, Jungner, G.  Principles and Practice of Screening for Disease.  World Health Organization.  Public Health Papers (34) 1968."][/conditional]