Tag: Screening
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
Social Risk Screening Has Increased at Physician Practices
But in 2022, only 27 percent of practices screened for all five social risks, up from 15 percent in 2017
More Than Half of People With Rheumatoid Arthritis Have Anemia
Anemia significantly associated with higher disease severity, elevated inflammatory markers
Black Children Suspected of Experiencing Child Abuse at Higher Rates
Black race remained an independent risk factor associated with suspicion for child abuse in adjusted analyses
