1. The condition sought should be an important health problem. | |
2. There should be an accepted treatment for patients with recognized disease. | |
3. Facilities for diagnosis and treatment should be available. | |
4. There should be a recognizable latent or early symptomatic stage. | |
5. There should be a suitable test or examination. | |
6. The test should be acceptable to the population. | |
7. The natural history of the condition, including development from latent to declared disease, should be adequately understood. | |
8. There should be an agreed policy on whom to treat as patients. | |
9. The cost of case-finding (including diagnosis and treatment of patients diagnosed) should be economically balanced in relation to possible expenditure on medical care as a whole. | |
10. Case-finding should be a continuing process and not a “once and for all” project |