Journal of Medical Screening articles

Recent articles from Journal of Medical Screening

Live long and prosper: a mass strategy for treating the factors associated with ischaemic heart disease and stroke.(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... In the 1950s and 1960s a debate raged between Professor (later Sir) George Pickering, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, and Professor Robert (later Lord) Platt, Professor of Medicine in Manchester. (1) Pickering maintained that people with a high blood pressure were in the tail of a...

The performance of blood pressure and other cardiovascular risk factors as screening tests for ischaemic heart disease and stroke.(Original Paper)
March 22, 2004... This paper summarises the main evidence and conclusions relating to using blood pressure measurement as a screening test to identify people who will develop ischaemic heart disease (IHD) or stroke, as recently published in a Health Technology Assessment report. While blood pressure is...

Diagnostic effectiveness of simultaneous thyroxine and thyroid-stimulating hormone screening measurements. Thirteen years' experience in the northeast Italian screening programme.(Original Paper)
March 22, 2004... Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and thyroxine (T4) measurements at neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism, we compared our false-negative results with those we would have obtained if we had used TSH screening alone. Subjects and...

Cost-effectiveness of screening for colorectal cancer: evidence from the Nottingham faecal occult blood trial.(Original Paper)
March 22, 2004... Objectives: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of faecal occult blood (FOB) screening for colorectal cancer within the Nottingham trial. Setting: A randomised controlled trial (1981-present) of 153,000 subjects, of whom approximately half were offered biennial FOB testing over up to five...

Self-sampling in screening to reduce mortality from colorectal cancer: a qualitative exploration of the decision to complete a faecal occult blood test (FOBT).(Original Paper)
March 22, 2004... Objective: To explore beliefs that might impact upon public reactions to a proposed population level faecal occult blood test (FOBT) screening invitation and acceptability of completing an FOBT home self-sampling kit. Methods: Four focus groups were conducted to explore men and women's...