Tag: Screening
Peanut Oral Immunotherapy Yields Higher Rates of Tolerance in High-Threshold Allergy
Significantly higher rates seen for desensitization, with durable response for home-measured peanut butter ingestion versus avoidance
Ethnoracial Disparities Seen in Access to Genetic Testing in Pediatric Neurology
White pediatric neurology patients more likely to have completed one or more genetic test than Black patients
AI Contributes to Early Detection of Clinically Relevant Breast Cancer
Increase seen in detection of invasive cancers and in situ cancers, with reduction in screen-reading workload
Urine-Based Test Provides Accurate Testing Option for Advanced Prostate Cancer
MPS2 provides meaningful improvement in detection of grade group ≥2 cancer relative to PSA-based testing approaches
Effect of Behavioral Intervention on Reducing Care Overuse in Seniors Not Sustained
Persistence of effects of behavioral intervention in older adults varies after discontinuation of intervention
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
