Although screening may lead to an earlier diagnosis, not all screening tests have been shown to benefit the person being screened; overdiagnosis, misdiagnosis, and creating a false sense of security are some potential adverse effects of screening.
Defining Screening, Assessment, and Evaluation for Early Care and Education (ECE) Professionals Audience: Early care and education (ECE) professionals who work with children from birth through first grade and their families. This includes those involved in Head Start and Early Head Start, Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) childcare programs, community and school-based preschool or ...
A screening test is done to detect potential health disorders or diseases in people who do not have any symptoms of disease. The goal is early detection and lifestyle changes or surveillance, to reduce the risk of disease, or to detect it early enough to treat it most effectively.
prescriptive screening that performed for the early detection of disease or disease precursors in apparently well individuals so that health care can be provided early in the course of the disease or before the disease becomes manifest.