Tag: Screening
Benefits, Harms of Breast Cancer Screening Vary With Risk, Density
For all screening intervals, benefits and over-diagnosis increase with breast density, relative risk
Residents Often Order Perceived Unnecessary Lab Tests
Behaviors attributed to health system culture, lack of transparency about health care service costs
Expanded Carrier Screening May Up Detection of Genetic Disorders
Expanded screening modeled more hypothetical fetuses at risk for severe or profound conditions
Onsite Tests Have High Specificity for Bacteriuria
Onsite tests have high specificity but lower sensitivity in asymptomatic pregnant women
Contemporary ECG Criteria Cuts Costs of Screening Athletes
Use of Seattle and refined criteria reduces costs per athlete, per serious diagnosis versus 2010 ESC recs
USPSTF: Evidence Lacking for Lipid Screening in Children, Teens
I statement shows current evidence is insufficient to weigh balance of benefits and harms of screening
Distress Over False-Positive Cystic Fibrosis Screen Not Lasting
Despite immediate distress reported by mothers, psychosocial distress not detected in newborns
USPSTF Recommends Against Screening for Genital Herpes
Grade D recommendation against routine screening for asymptomatic adolescents and adults
USPSTF: Evidence Lacking to Recommend Skin Cancer Screens
New report doesn't change Task Force's prior statement on skin cancer screening issued in 2009
Grindr Feasible for Distributing HIV Self-Tests to High-Risk MSM
Feasible for distribution of kits to black, Latino men who have sex with men in Los Angeles
