International Journal of Women's Health Care(IJWHC)

Medical Informatics Center, Peking University, 38 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100191, China

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• Research Article   
  The Establishment of National Standards for Health Checks In China and a Comparison with American EHE Standards
  Author(s): Yanhui Zhu and Jianbo Lei*
  
  Background: Different institutes utilize different test standards for routine health checks in China. It is necessary and urgent to establish unified standards for health checks to conserve medical resources and reduce the social burden in China. The purpose of this study is to determine standards of health items and evaluate the advantage and disadvantage by comparing with the American executive health exam (EHE) standards. Methods: We collected health check items used in 60 top hospitals within mainland China. We excluded items that occurred in less than 80%. We compared the selected items with those used in the American EHE standards. Results: China’s health check included physical examination, non-infectious disease screening, malignancy screening, laboratory screening, and imaging examinations. China&rsq.. Read More»
  

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