A multiple screening clinic.
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A second multiple screening clinic in rural general practice.
THE basic principle of multiple screening is to detect certain diseases in an early stage when they are readily treatable thus reducing their mortality. Additionally, screen¬ ing should aim at detecting those patients with incipient degenerative diseases so that their sequelae can be minimized and their morbidity reduced. Since our previous paper (Cope and Smith, 1967) describing A health week ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1965
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.5469.1034