From: Prevention of anxiety disorders in primary care: A feasibility study
1 | The condition sought should be an important health problem. |
2 | There should be an accepted treatment for patients with recognized disease. |
3 | Facilities for diagnosis and treatment should be available. |
4 | There should be a recognizable latent or early symptomatic stage. |
5 | There should be a suitable test or examination. |
6 | The test should be acceptable to the population. |
7 | The natural history of the condition, including development from latent to declared disease, should be adequately understood. |
8 | There should be an agreed policy on whom to treat as patients. |
9 | The cost of case-finding (including diagnosis and treatment of patients diagnosed) should be economically balanced in relation to possible expenditure on medical care as a whole. |
10 | Case-finding should be a continuing process and not a āonce and for allā project. |