Tag: Screening
Integrated Care Boosts Smoking Cessation When Undergoing Lung Cancer Screening
Integrated care involving medication and intensive counseling provides optimal smoking cessation intervention
Twenty-Nine Novel Retinal Vascular Parameters Linked to Stroke Risk
Area under receiver operating characteristic curve improved with retinal parameters, outperforming traditional risk factors
USPSTF Recommends Osteoporosis Screening for Women 65 Years and Older
Screening to prevent osteoporotic fractures also recommended for postmenopausal women younger than 65 years at increased risk; evidence lacking for screening men
Rurality Partly Explains Racial Difference in Distance to Lung Cancer Screening
Mean distance in American Indian-majority census tracts reduced with adjustment for rurality but was still 3.16 times that seen in White majority tracts
Adding Depression, Anxiety Measures to CVD Prediction Model Has Little Impact
Inclusion of all mental health measures yields very modest increase in C-index and specificity, with no change in sensitivity
Dementia Index Shows Validity for Predicting Age of Onset of MCI, Alzheimer Disease
In simulated trial, FDI achieved mean absolute errors of 1.57 and 0.70 years for predicting MCI, AD onset, respectively
AI-Driven Detection of Ovarian Cancer Surpasses Human Expert-Level Accuracy
Transformer-based neural network models surpass diagnostic performance of examiners for identifying ovarian cancer in ultrasound images
Decrease Seen in In Situ Breast Cancer Since 2009
Decrease consistent with decreasing use of screening mammography since 2009 guideline change
Intestinal Ultrasound Feasible for Detecting Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Correlations seen with fecal calprotectin, endoscopic disease activity, but not clinical disease activity
Patient-Centered Pathology Reports Improve Prostate Cancer Understanding
Benefits include better discrimination between risk levels
