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Abstract
This essay was conducted to focus on screening programs in elderly people in Evidence-Based Medicine, which has pivotal role in improving the provided care to elderly population through early detection of the disease. The main aim of the essay is to identify importance of screening in elderly, different screening programs that deal specifically for geriatric population, controversies regarding screening decision making, assessing the potential benefits and risk, and implementation of different guidelines recommendation. The literacy is composed of four chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects; overview about screening, validity of the screening and how it influences the screening decision, recommendation for screening in elderly population as evidence-based, and finally discuss some of the Middle East countries’ screening status. Controversies regarding screening decision is addressed e.g. Although screening ostensibly looks to benefits the patient via decreasing mortality and morbidity from the disease, but it also may cause harm via over-diagnosis, misdiagnosis, unnecessary investigation and treatment of false positive results, stress, and anxiety if performed inappropriately. The thesis discusses such debates and works on finding out screening criteria guidelines, and evidence-based screening recommendations for elderly that should be fulfilled. A screening test is used to determine the disease in apparently well asymptomatic individual, which differ from diagnostic test that is used to determine the presence or absence of a disease in symptomatic individuals. Many issues need to be considered when making individualized screening decisions in