Nielsen C, Lang R S
Department of General Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA.
Med Clin North Am. 1999 Nov;83(6):1323-37, v. doi: 10.1016/s0025-7125(05)70169-3.
Preventive medicine is an increasingly important area of clinical practice. Conceptually, preventive medicine involves three tasks of the clinician: screening, counseling, and immunization/prophylaxis. This opening article reviews some of the basic tenets underlying screening including basic epidemiologic principles, characteristics of a good screening situation, barriers to screening, and some of the potential hazards of screening.
预防医学是临床实践中一个日益重要的领域。从概念上讲，预防医学涉及临床医生的三项任务：筛查、咨询以及免疫接种/预防。这篇开篇文章回顾了筛查背后的一些基本原理，包括基本的流行病学原则、良好筛查情况的特征、筛查的障碍以及筛查的一些潜在危害。
