Tag: Screening

Authors say physicians should screen and counsel older adults on alcohol use

Overweight or obese adults should be screened for prediabetes, type 2 diabetes and offered or referred for preventive interventions

Full prediction model could prevent 45.5 percent of false-positive recalls, 21.3 percent of benign biopsies for those with extremely dense breasts

When seeing patients with shortness of breath, testing for pulmonary embolism increases for 10 days after diagnosing a patient with the condition

When given more information, almost half of research participants who initially refused opted to accept secondary genetic findings

Between six and 28 percent of preprocedural urinalyses that were not indicated were followed by an antibiotic prescription

Authors recommend that dermatologists perform a total-body skin examination even when a patient is referred for a suspicious lesion

Screening for gestational diabetes at or after 24 weeks of gestation has moderate net benefit to improve maternal and fetal outcomes

Half of patients are liable for some costs of secondary imaging interpretation, but only 17.1 percent made out-of-pocket payments

National LCS rates were unchanged between 2019 and 2020; significant declines seen in five states and increases recorded in 19 states