Tag: Screening
Alternative Criteria Can ID High-Benefit Groups for Lung Cancer Screening
Alternative criteria included people who smoked any amount for at least 40 years; people aged 60 to 80 years with 40 pack-years of smoking
Machine Learning Model Can Predict Autism Spectrum Disorder
XGBoost model demonstrated strong performance with AUROC of 0.895 and sensitivity and specificity of 0.805 and 0.829
Symptom-Triggered Testing Can ID Low Disease Burden in Ovarian Cancer
Among those with high-grade serous ovarian cancer, 25.2 percent of women were diagnosed with stages I/II
Breast Cancer Screening Attendance Helps Boost Other Cancer Screenings
Findings seen for women offered self-sampling kits for overdue cancer screenings
Estimated U.S. Annual Cost of Initial Cancer Screening $43 Billion in 2021
Major drivers of the total estimated costs of screening were amounts paid to facilities where testing occurred
Subjective Visual Vertical Test Has Low Sensitivity for Identifying Meniere Disease
Optimal cutoff point was 2.1 degrees of deviation toward the lesion, which had sensitivity of 0.698 and specificity of 0.717
Amyloid Probability Score 2 Has High Diagnostic Accuracy for Alzheimer Disease
Diagnostic accuracy 73 percent for dementia specialists compared with 91 percent using the APS2
Lack of Institutional Support May Drive Physician Reluctance to Address Addiction
Other barriers include lack of knowledge, skill, and cognitive capacity
FIT Screening Cuts Risk of Death From Colorectal Cancer
Association between fecal immunochemical tests and lower CRC mortality risk seen across races
Considerable Proportion of Seniors Have Asymptomatic Valvular Heart Disease
In a recent study, the rate of prevalence of clinically significant VHD was 2.4 percent
