Abstract This volume of Epidemiologic Reviews continues a discussion about screening
within the evidence community that has been going on for many years. From various …

Abstract The 2009 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference focused on
“Public Health in the ED: Surveillance, Screening and Intervention.” One conference …

There is, in this writer's mind, no doubt that risk management is important and that
Emergency Department practice is particularly compatible with thorough and thoughtful risk …

Background In 2003, 11 public health epidemiologists were placed in North Carolina's
largest hospitals to enhance communication between public health agencies and healthcare …

Evidence on the effectiveness of health screening strategies may be direct (ie, studies on
screening vs. no screening) or indirect (ie, studies that separately evaluate the screening …

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COMMENTARY The benefits of screening must outweigh the risks and costs By instituting a …

Physicians are asked to perform many tasks, which primarily have been directed at
diagnosis, treatment, and management of disease processes. Increasingly, they have …

This definition was taken from one published in the first issue of the Journal of Medical
Screening, 2 to a public health service in which members of a defined population who do not …

Use of the emergency department (ED) for non-emergent care has long been a concern of
providers, policy makers, and payers.... EDs are not designed to provide continuity of care …

Background Widespread epidemics, pandemics, and other risk-prone disasters occur with
disturbing regularity. When such events occur, how should, and will, clinicians respond? The …