multiphasic screening (multiple screening) that in which various diagnostic procedures are employed during the same screening program.

What is a multiphasic screening?

Multiphasic screening is often stereotyped as a comprehensive series of systematized automated tests which seek to screen and detect disease on a logical basis before it becomes obvious to the patient or before a diagnosis in the normal course of events can be made.

What are the types of screening?

There now appear to be four main aims of screening, although seven terms are used to describe them: case-finding, mass screening, multiphasic screening, opportunistic screening, periodical health examination, prescriptive screening, and targeted screening.