Letter From Guest Editor: Radiologic Screening

In this issue of Seminars in Roentgenology, we examine the use of imaging studies to screen individuals who are asymptomatic to detect disease before it is clinically evident. The ethics of offering screening to asymptomatic individuals are different from the ethics of evaluating and treating symptomatic patients. The oath of physicians, “primum non nocere” or “first, do no harm” is an important consideration when performing and evaluating screening tests. The operational details of screening studies are complex including strategies to define who should be screened, the screening test to be used, as well as when and how often the screening test should be performed.

Source: Seminars in Roentgenology - October 30, 2014 Category: Radiology Authors: Mylene T. Truong Source Type: research