OBJECTIVES To review studies on newborn hearing screening in Hong Kong and the current evidence on the cost-effectiveness of universal newborn hearing screening programmes and to determine their value and the best model for such a programme in Hong Kong. DATA SOURCE Medline literature search (1985-2004), local reports and abstracts available to the author. STUDY SELECTION Literature and dat...

creening is offered to apparently well individuals to identify those at high risk of a specific condition, for whom early treatment, more effective treatment, or information may be offered in order to improve health outcome or to provide opportunities for informed decision making. By definition, screening tests are not diagnostic tests and therefore cannot separate reliably those with a specifi...

on mortality in the fortyforty-nine age group is still uncertain. The evidence from these trials led the committee to conclude that breast screening can reduce the mortality from breast cancer and this was, therefore, recommended. The whole matter then took on a political significance and it was decided to implement a countrywide screening programme within a very short period, (i.e. by 1990) co...

OBJECTIVE To measure the cost effectiveness of systematic photographic screening for sight threatening diabetic eye disease compared with existing practice. DESIGN Cost effectiveness analysis. SETTING Liverpool. SUBJECTS A target population of 5000 diabetic patients invited for screening. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Cost effectiveness (cost per true positive) of systematic and opportunistic p...

Not all women invited to participate in the NHS breast screening programme will do so; those who do not may differ in their risk of breast cancer from those who do. This “self selection” for screening can result in women at either high or low risk being overrepresented in those screened. A screening programme in which those who attend have a high risk of breast cancer is likely to detect more c...

The National Cancer Screening Programme (NCSP) began in 1999. The purpose of this report is to evaluate the results of the NCSP for cervical cancer in 2008 and to present essential evidence associated with the cervical cancer screening programme in Korea. Screening results were obtained from the National Cancer Screening Information System. Participation rates and recall rates were calculated w...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer screening programmes have markedly reduced the incidence and mortality rates of the disease. A substantial amount of deaths from the disease could be prevented further by organised screening programmes or improving currently running programmes. METHODS/DESIGN We present here a randomised evaluation trial design integrated to the Finnish cervical cancer screening pro...

Newborn Screening is a well recognised public health programme aimed at the early identification of infants who are affected by certain genetic/metabolic/infectious conditions. Early identification of these conditions is particularly crucial, since timely intervention can lead to a significant reduced morbidity, mortality, and associated disabilities in affected infants. Establishing sustainabl...

Currently the UK national breast screening programme only offers routine screening to women aged between 50 and 64. Whilst there are good clinical and economic reasons for not screening younger women, there is no compelling argument for not extending routine screening to older women. In this paper, we show that by diverting screening resources to older women, where cancer is more prevalent, mor...