Tag: Screening
Vaginal Swabs More Reliable Than Urine for STI Testing
Findings based on comparisons for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis
USPSTF: Evidence Lacking for Screening Asymptomatic Patients for Skin Cancer
Current evidence is insufficient for assessing balance of benefits and harms of screening asymptomatic adults, adolescents
Universal, Age-Based Diabetes Screening IDs Most Cases
Method identifies greatest proportion of adults with prediabetes and diabetes compared with USPSTF recommendations and BMI-based screening
Risk for Cervical Cancer Higher in Women With Mental Illness
Simultaneously, women with mental illness have lower rates of participation in cancer screening
ChatGPT Mostly Accurate for Breast Cancer Prevention, Screening Questions
Responses were graded by fellowship-trained breast radiologists
Most Patients Prefer to Receive Test Results Through Online Portal
Only 7.5 percent of respondents reported that reviewing results before they were contacted by a health care practitioner increased worry
Mailed Human Papillomavirus Self-Sampling Kits Are Cost-Effective
Findings show it is an economically efficient outreach strategy for increasing cervical cancer screening rates
Racial Differences Seen in Discretionary Prenatal Care
For example, Black women less likely to have depression screening, more likely to have urine drug test than White women
Children With Autism Less Likely to Receive Vision Screening
Among those with autism spectrum disorder, Black children have lower rate of screening than White, other/multiracial children
Digital Rectal Exam Does Not Detect Early-Stage Prostate Cancer
Among men analyzed with DRE as solitary screening test for prostate cancer, suspicious findings did not increase prostate cancer detection
