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Health Screening

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Use of Preventive Services in a Population of Very Low-Income Women

Very low-income women continue to have unmet needs for Pap smears and mammograms, even though a large proportion have seen a physician within the year

Jan 1, 2002
Journal Article

Impact of Prostate Cancer Screening on Health-Related Quality of Life in At-Risk Families

Screening with normal PSA results is accompanied by a minimally to moderate deterioration of HRQOL in some subjects.

Jan 1, 2002
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Role of Black Churches in Health Promotion Programs: Lessons from the Los Angeles Mammography Promotion in Churches Program

Assesses pastor-level factors that affect the successful recruitment and implementation of community-based health promotion programs in Black churches

Jan 1, 2002
Journal Article

A Screening System for Michigan's Home- and Community-Based Long Term Care Programs

To develop a screening system for Michigan's MI Choice publicly funded home- and community-based services programs.

Jan 1, 2002
Journal Article

Screening for Cervical Cancer in HIV-infected Women Receiving Care in the United States

Providing gynecologic care at the same site as primary HIV care would likely improve delivery of needed gynecologic care for women.

Jan 1, 2001
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Brief Screening of Psychiatric Disorders Among a National Sample of HIV-positive Adults: Concordance Between the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and the CIDI Short Form (CIDI-SF)

The CIDI-SF provided useful information about general mental health but was less accurate for providing disorder-specific diagnoses than anticipated.

Jan 1, 2001
Journal Article

Impact of Systematic False-Negative Test Results on the Performance of Faecal Occult Blood Screening

The impact of systematic false-negative test results on mortality reduction and on programme sensitivity of annual faecal occult blood testing

Jan 1, 2001
Journal Article

Important Influences on Effectiveness and Costs to Be Considered in the Evaluation of Cancer Screening

Trials of cancer screening are designed to give an answer to the question of whether screening is effective in reducing cancer mortality.

Jan 1, 2001
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Pathologic Features of Prostate Cancer Found at Population-Based Screening with a Four-Year Interval

Most large prostate cancers with high serum PSA levels were effectively detected in a prevalence screen.

Jan 1, 2001
Journal Article

Targeted Mailed Materials and the Medicare Beneficiary: Increasing Mammogram Screening Among the Elderly

Older women have the highest breast cancer rates but are underscreened relative to their risk.

Jan 1, 2001
Journal Article

Hepatitis B Among Homeless and Other Impoverished US Military Veterans in Residential Care in Los Angeles

Strategies for intervention include broader screening, immunization, and treatment interventions with this high-risk group.

Dec 31, 2000
Report

Comparison of the ROST and the CAGE Alcohol Screening Instruments in Young Adults

Comparison of the ROST and the CAGE Alcohol Screening Instruments in Young Adults

Dec 31, 2000
Journal Article

Strengthening the US Health Care Safety Net

Issue of access to health care and the goals of universal health insurance.

Jan 1, 2000
Journal Article

Screening for Chlamydia in Adolescents and Young Women

There is room for improvement in rates of chlamydia screening in sexually active females aged 15 to 25 years.

Jan 1, 2000
Journal Article

Maintaining Mammography Adherence Through Telephone Counseling in a Church-Based Trial

This study assessed the effectiveness of telephone counseling in a church-based mammography promotion intervention trial.

Jan 1, 2000
Report

Dealing With Diversity: Recruiting Churches and Women for a Randomized Trial of Mammography Promotion

In this study, the authors recruit African American, Latino, and white churches and women members (age 50 to 80) for a randomized church-based trial of mammography promotion in Los Angeles County.

Jan 1, 2000
Journal Article

Annual Postal Screening for Geriatric Problems: What Happens After Two Years?

Repeat annual screening could be targeted to outpatients with borderline scores, and less frequent screening for those with low risk scores.

Jan 1, 2000
Journal Article

Screening Mammography in Elderly Women

On older women who could benefit from mammography screening at the most reasonable costs, and their differences in preferences for health outcomes.

Jan 1, 2000
Journal Article

Endoscopic Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Cost-Saving Analysis

The induced savings by endoscopic colorectal cancer screening compensate for the costs.

Jan 1, 2000
Journal Article

Using a Criterion Standard to Validate the Alcohol-Related Problems Survey (ARPS): A Screening Measure to Identify Harmful and Hazardous Drinking in Older Persons

Compared the ARPS to a CS among 22 persons aged 65 and older who reported consuming at least one drink of alcohol in the previous 12 months.

Jan 1, 2000

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RAND Topic:
Health Screening

Topic Synonyms:
Patient Evaluation

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