Tag: Screening

Increased risk for preterm delivery seen with one additional recommended screening; risk higher for those with hypertension, diabetes

Statement applies to children aged 5 years or younger about whom there are no concerns relating to speech or language

Direct oral challenge noninferior to skin testing followed by oral challenge for patients with low-risk allergy

Capillary and venous dry blood spot can identify glial fibrillary acidic protein, neurofilament light, phosphorylated tau

However, only about one in five has had such screening in the past year

No direct evidence seen on the benefits or harms of pediatric and young adult lipid screening

This approach allows for automatic hepatitis C virus RNA testing when an HCV antibody test is reactive in order to avoid incomplete testing

AUROC estimate of four-marker protein panel plus PLCO_m2012 was 0.88 for risk prediction of lung cancer death

Catch-up HPV screening linked to significantly higher CIN2+ detection among women invited for screening by clinician-based or self-sampling

Indigenous men with prostate cancer are also more likely to have higher-risk disease characteristics