Tag: Screening
Drive-Through IOP Screening Clinic Feasible During COVID-19
Intraocular pressure screening clinic allows for continued management, including necessary changes in management
Virtual Kidney Transplant Evaluation Possible
Telehealth platform enabled maintenance of wait-list evaluation volume in large kidney transplant program during COVID-19 pandemic
Machine Learning Models Can Predict Gestational Diabetes
Effective discrimination achieved with 73-variable model, seven-variable logistic regression model in early pregnancy
Pandemic Has Disrupted Lung Cancer Screenings
Once operations resumed, decrease seen in new patients screened, proportion of suspicious nodules increased
CDC: Travelers From the U.K. Must Have Negative COVID-19 Test
If a traveler opts not to take a test, the airline must deny boarding the passenger
Out-of-Pocket Costs Rising for Neurology Tests, Visits
Annually, out-of-pocket costs paid by 86.5 to 95.2 percent of patients for evaluation/management visits
Cardiac Risk Assessment Low After Noncardiac Surgery
6.8 percent of those undergoing noncardiac surgery from January 2013 to December 2017 had preoperative natriuretic peptide screening
Americans Showing Hesitancy Toward COVID-19 Testing
Majority of adults believing they need a COVID-19 test delay or avoid testing, most often due to exposure fear
USPSTF Recommends Hep B Screen for At-Risk Teens, Adults
Screening adults, adolescents at increased risk for hepatitis B virus infection offers moderate net benefit
FDA Approves First Over-the-Counter Fully At-Home Test for COVID-19
Ellume COVID-19 Home Test detects SARS-CoV-2 virus protein fragments on nasal swab samples
