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Table 1 Assessment criteria for screening[1]

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 ā€œonce and for allā€ project.