Tag: Screening

One in six patients with diabetes had previously undiagnosed atrial fibrillation with similar rates in men and women

Evidence lacking for accuracy of virtual cognitive assessments for diagnosing dementia, mild cognitive impairment in older adults

Area under receiver operating characteristic curve for discriminating ASD from non-ASD was 0.90 using multiple gaze features

The American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting 2021

Absolute deficit in screening estimated at 3.9, 3.8, and 1.6 million for breast, colorectal, and prostate cancers, respectively

Multitarget stool DNA test, fecal immunochemical test, or guaiac-based fecal occult blood test preferred over colonoscopy

Asymptomatic brain metastases incidentally diagnosed in about 4 percent of patients with mRCC during clinical trial screening

New atrial fibrillation was detected in 1.5 percent of patients screened versus 0.3 percent of controls, who did not undergo screening

Those who have clinically recovered but continue to test positive on RT-PCR after the requisite isolation seem not to be infectious to others

Current evidence is lacking and balance of benefits and harms of screening cannot be determined