Screening Instruments [WLOs: 1, 2, 3] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4]
Screening instruments are used widely and are a vital component of public practice include disease prevention. In preparation for your first post in this discussion, find a public or private health clinic in your community that engages in health screening. Next, in the text of your initial post,
- Take several paragraphs to describe the clinic’s practices and policies that govern their use of screening.
- Include any available information on screening sensitivity, specificity, reliability, and validity.
- Use written material from the agency’s web site to avoid asking time from staff to explain practice and policy (if possible).
