Tag: Screening

Screening with blood pressure measurements has substantial net benefits and is recommended throughout pregnancy

Prevalence of reporting clinician recommendation was lower for non-Hispanic Asian, Black, Hispanic versus White adults

Test able to quantify diagnostic status as well as individual levels of social disability, verbal ability, and nonverbal ability

Significant decrease seen in incidence of stage I melanomas but not other stages

Meta-analysis only shows a 110-day survival benefit for colorectal cancer screening with sigmoidoscopy

All children should have risk assessment for hearing changes; prompt objective screening recommended in case of clinical or caregiver concern

Screening tool was well calibrated and had better discrimination than previous models including HUNT, Kunzmann

Score had strong discriminatory accuracy in U.K. Biobank test sample and Whitehall cohort, with AUCs of 0.80 and 0.77

In a recent study, 16 percent of men who responded to screening invite had positive screening MRI

Single-site cancer screening could save an additional 3.2 to 5.1 million life-years with perfect adherence