Screen more or screen more often? Using mathematical models to inform syphilis control strategies

Screen more or screen more often? Using mathematical models to inform syphilis control strategies

BACKGROUND Syphilis incidence among men who have sex with men (MSM) continues to rise despite attempts to increase screening and treatment uptake. We examined the marginal effect of increased frequency versus increased coverage of screening on syphilis incidence in Toronto, Canada. METHODS We developed an agent-based, network model of syphilis transmission, representing a core population of 2...

To screen or not to screen.

All screenings lack efficiency because they rely too often on biaised and underpowered statistics. Healthcare business makes tremendous benefits out of well established and easy profit earning processes from screenings to treatments; therefore patients enlightened consent is under influence. In the wealthiest parts of the world, this field of public health sciences impulses studies with intense...

Depression: to screen or not to screen?

There are few more difficult diagnoses to make than depression in sick older patients in a general hospital. There is no diagnostic test and confounding physical symptoms, the sheer fact of being ill in the inhospitable and frightening environment of a hospital away from home, possibly for weeks, and still facing an uncertain recovery makes interpretation of symptoms very difficult. When does a...

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