Data Dictionary: Guide: Screening programmes: a short guide. Increase effectiveness, maximize benefits and minimize harm
From Beacon
Contents:
Aims of screening programmes Wilson & Jungner’s principles of screening Screening programmes as pathways
- Measuring test performance
Understanding how screening tests work in practice
- Measuring outcomes from screening programmes
Benefits and harm of screening
- Benefits
- Maximizing the benefits of screening programmes
- Harm
- Understanding harm
Balancing benefits and harm
- How are benefits and harm compared?
- Who benefits?
- Does the context affect the balance between harm and benefits?
- Ethics of screening
Deciding whether to start or stop a screening programme
- Leading the process
- Recognizing different interests
- Is screening the answer?
- What does the evidence say?
- Modelling numbers and costs
- Using criteria to guide decision-making
- Pilot testing
Designing effective screening programmes
- Types of screening
- Multiple screening tests carried out at the same time
Operational readiness
- Leadership, coordination and management
- Constructing a pathway
- Trained personnel
- Information systems
- Funding
- Health system capacity
- Information and communication
Operating a screening programme
- Ensuring that screening programmes deliver the anticipated benefits
- Quality assurance systems
- Improving participation
Monitoring and evaluation
- Measures of screening programme performance
