Tag: Screening
Black Seniors More Likely to Receive Low-Value Acute Diagnostic Tests
White patients have higher rate of low-value screening tests and treatment, including preoperative lab tests, PSA tests
ACG: Noninvasive Multitarget Stool RNA Test Has High Sensitivity for CRC
mt-sRNA has sensitivity of 94 percent for detecting colorectal cancer, 46 percent for advanced adenomas
CRC Screening Uptake No Better With Use of FIT in At-Risk Individuals
FIT screening does not improve screening uptake and has lower rate of advanced colorectal neoplasia detection
No Meaningful Increase Seen in New Opioid Use Disorder Diagnoses With Routine Screening
Implementation of opioid use disorder screening does not increase percentage of patients with new diagnosis
EHR Reminders, Outreach Improve Follow-Up for Abnormal Cancer Screening
Multilevel primary care intervention improves follow-up of overdue abnormal cancer screening tests
PLCOm2012 Models Have High Sensitivity for Lung Cancer
PLCOm2012 models have higher sensitivity than USPSTF criteria, with no difference by Indigenous classification
Screening in Emergency Department Could ID Previously Unrecognized Diabetes
30.2 and 8.6 percent of patients presenting to ED not known to have diabetes had prediabetes and T2D, respectively
Multicancer Early Detection Blood Tests Are Feasible
Cancer signal was detected in 1.4 percent of participants; of these, 38 percent were true positives and diagnosed with cancer
App Can Accurately Detect Autism in Young Children
Algorithm combining multiple digital phenotypes has high diagnostic accuracy, with area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.90
Machine Learning Can Better ID Who Needs Lung Cancer Screening
Model relies only on age, smoking duration, and pack-years
