The nurse works at community clinic that provides various types of health screenings for members of the community. One day, the nurse provides tuberculin tests for a group of new hospital employees. Which type of screening procedure is this?
A) Mass screening
B) Selective screening
C) Multiphasic screening
D) Case finding
Ans: B
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Selective screening is performed for specific high-risk populations, such as tuberculin tests for hospital employees. Mass screening is performed on an entire population, such as blood lead level screening, Papanicolaou (Pap) smears, and phenylketonuria of newborns. Multiphasic screening involves a variety of screening tests applied to the same population on the same occasion, such as a series of tests performed on a single blood sample, periodic surveillance of drug therapy, and monitoring the stage of an illness. Case finding is a type of screening ordered by a clinician when searching for illness as part of a client's periodic health examination.
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