Screening for Low Prevalence Disorders
- 1 December 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 34 (2_suppl) , S39-S46
- https://doi.org/10.1080/000486700221
Abstract
Objective: To examine the epidemiologic theory of screening as it applies to low prevalence disorders, such as schizophrenia, in order to identify the tasks req...Keywords
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