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Descriptor English: Mandatory Testing
Descriptor Spanish: Exámenes Obligatorios
Descriptor exámenes obligatorios
Entry term(s) cribado obligatorio
pruebas de detección selectiva obligatorias
screening obligatorio
tamizaje obligatorio
Scope note: Exámenes o pruebas de detección selectiva requeridos por las leyes federales, estatales o locales para el diagnósticos de enfermedades específicas. Generalmente se limitan a determinadas poblaciones, como categorías de personal sanitario, miembros del ejército, prisioneros o a situaciones específicas como exámenes prematrimoniales o para la donación.
Descriptor Portuguese: Testes Obrigatórios
Descriptor French: Dépistage obligatoire
Entry term(s): Mandatory Screening
Screening, Mandatory
Testing, Mandatory
Tree number(s): I01.880.604.622.500
N03.706.657.500
N06.850.780.200.550
N06.850.780.500.412
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018580
Scope note: Testing or screening required by federal, state, or local law or other agencies for the diagnosis of specified conditions. It is usually limited to specific populations such as categories of health care providers, members of the military, and prisoners or to specific situations such as premarital examinations or donor screening.
Annotation: for prev of commun dis; IM; coord with specific dis or population group (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Previous Indexing: specific infectious disease/diagnosis (1989-1994)
specific infectious disease/prevention & control (1989-1994)
Public MeSH Note: 95
History Note: 95
Related: Substance Abuse Detection MeSH
DeCS ID: 32157
Unique ID: D018580
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1995/01/01
Date of Entry: 1994/06/01
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Mandatory Testing - Preferred
Concept UI M0027851
Scope note Testing or screening required by federal, state, or local law or other agencies for the diagnosis of specified conditions. It is usually limited to specific populations such as categories of health care providers, members of the military, and prisoners or to specific situations such as premarital examinations or donor screening.
Preferred term Mandatory Testing
Entry term(s) Mandatory Screening
Screening, Mandatory
Testing, Mandatory



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