title: Screening for disease, cost-effectiveness, and guidelines.
abstract: This article provides a brief overview of issues involved in selecting prevention maneuvers for primary care practitioners. Screening diseases, the screening tests themselves, patient characteristics, and cost-effectiveness are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Dartmouth Medical School, Augusta, Maine 04330, USA.
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003657:Decision Making; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011322:Primary Prevention; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity