Wilson and Jungner criteria for disease screening
| 1 | The condition sought should be an important health problem. |
| 2 | There should be an accepted treatment for patients with recognised disease. |
| 3 | Facilities for diagnosis and treatment should be available. |
| 4 | There should be a 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 who 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. |
Adapted from the WHO.15