Journal of Medical Screening articles from March 2003

Journal of Medical Screening archives from March 2003

Under new management! Medical Screening Society buys Journal of Medical Screening.(www.jmedscreen.com)(Editorial)
March 22, 2003... The Medical Screening Society has purchased the Journal of Medical Screening from the BMJ Publishing Group, and Royal Society of Medicine Press has agreed to be the journal's new publisher. This is the first issue published under the new...

False-negative primary neonatal thyroid screening: the need for clinical vigilance and secondary screening. (Short Report).(medical research)
March 22, 2003... The screening of newborn babies for congenital hypothyroidism has changed the natural history of this abnormality. We describe here a case of a female patient with congenitai hypothyroidism that was missed by primary neonatal thyroid screening...

Assays for thyroid-stimulating hormone using dried blood spotted filter paper specimens to screen for hypothyroidism in older children and adults. (Original Paper).(medical research; includes statistical tables)
March 22, 2003... Objective: Symptoms of hypothyroidism in adults can be mistaken for medical and psychiatric diseases, as well as for general signs of ageing such as weakness, lethargy and fatigue. The incidence of hypothyroidism is many-fold higher in adults...

Hereditary haemochromatosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in males: a strategy for estimating the potential for primary prevention. (Original Paper).(medical research; includes statistical table)
March 22, 2003... Objectives: Homozygosity for the C282Y mutation of the HFE gene is the main cause of iron overload in hereditary haemochromatosis. This study calculated the number of hepatocellular carcinoma cases among a cohort of white males that could be...

Performance of the recommendations of a British advisory group for screening for chlamydia in a sample of women in general practice. (Short Report).(medical research; includes statistical table)
March 22, 2003... In this study the performance of the guidelines produced by the British Chief Medical Officer's expert advisory group for selective screening for Chlamydia trachomatis was evaluated. The guidelines were applied to a sample of 777 women in...

Contribution of clinical breast examination to mammography screening in the early detection of breast cancer. (Original Paper).(medical research; includes tables)
March 22, 2003... Objectives: As the benefit of clinical breast examination (CBE) over that of screening mammography alone in reducing breast cancer mortality is uncertain, it is informative to monitor its contribution to interim measures of effectiveness of a...

Informed consent for breast screening: what should we tell women? (Original Paper).(medical research; includes statistical tables)
March 22, 2003... Objective: To illustrate visually the lifetime probabilities of the principal outcomes of the UK breast screening programme in a readily understandable format. Methods: We derived prognostic data from a modelling exercise using published...

Does evidence-based information about screening for prostate cancer enhance consumer decision-making? A randomised controlled trial. (Original Paper).(medical research; includes tables)
March 22, 2003... Objectives: Efforts to educate men about the controversy surrounding prostate cancer screening are well intended but rarely evaluated rigorously. We evaluated an evidence-based (EB) booklet for men designed to promote informed decision-making....

Screening for vulnerability to psychological disorders in the military: an historical survey. (Review).
March 22, 2003... Objectives: To evaluate attempts in the military to screen for vulnerability to psychological disorders from World War I to the present. Methods: An extensive literature review was conducted by hand-searching leading medical and...

A likelihood ratio approach to meta-analysis or diagnostic studies. (Original Paper).(medical research; includes table)
March 22, 2003... Objective: To develop a clinically and methodologically sound approach to diagnostic meta-analysis. Methods: Two-step model was used involving four fictitious sets of 10 studies each with varying sensitivity and specificity; this was...

Comparing the observed and predicted effectiveness of folic acid fortification in preventing neural tube defects. .(medical research; includes statistical table)(Letter to the Editor)
March 22, 2003... In 1992, the US Public Health Service recommended that all women of childbearing age consume 400 [micro]g of folic acid daily to reduce their risk of having a pregnancy affected with a neural tube defect. In 1999, we reported a complete...