multiphasic screening

[-fā′sik]

Etymology: L, multus + phasis, appearance; ME, scren

a technique of screening populations for diseases that combines a battery of screening tests. The technique serves to identify any of several diseases being screened for in a population that is apparently healthy.

screening [skrēn´ing]

examination or testing of a group of individuals to separate those who are well from those who have an undiagnosed disease or defect or who are at high risk.

health screening in the nursing interventions classification, a nursing intervention defined as detecting health risks or problems by means of history, examination, and other procedures.

multiphasic screening (multiple screening) that in which various diagnostic procedures are employed during the same screening program.

prescriptive screening that performed for the early detection of disease or disease precursors in apparently well individuals so that health care can be provided early in the course of the disease or before the disease becomes manifest.

screening (omaha) in the omaha system, a target definition in the intervention scheme, denoting individual or group testing procedures, including measurements of vision, hearing, height, weight, development, scoliosis, blood pressure, and other qualities.

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This was the time when multiphasic screening was becoming technically and economically feasible in the medical profession, and there was a great deal of emphasis being placed on determining "normal values.

A familiar debate by Tchobanoff, Jim / Information Outlook

We might also have predicted that multiphasic screening would become much more highly developed and very successful, but here we would have been wrong.

The past as prologue: a look at the last 20 years by Benson, Ellis S. / Medical Laboratory Observer

Multiphasic screening was computerized, and questions about psychological health were included in the questionnaire.

Kaiser Permanente Pioneer Chosen for Prestigious Psyche Award by Business Wire

multiinfarct dementia

Multikine

multilamellar body

MultiLight system

multilineage leukemia