Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Mandatory Testing

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.

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Abstract

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.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Mandatory Screening
  • Screening, Mandatory
  • Testing, Mandatory

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Aspects Covered

9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings economics, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

for prev of commun dis; IM; coord with specific dis or population group (IM)

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History Note

95

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Previous Indexing

  • specific infectious disease/diagnosis (1989-1994)
  • specific infectious disease/prevention & control (1989-1994)

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  1. I01w.880w.604.622.500
  2. N03w.706.657.500
  3. N06.850w.780.200.550
  4. N06.850w.780.500.412

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Mandatory Testing. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018580. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018580
  2. Mandatory Testing. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67123611