Tag: Screening
Estimated U.S. Annual Cost of Initial Cancer Screening $43 Billion in 2021
Major drivers of the total estimated costs of screening were amounts paid to facilities where testing occurred
Subjective Visual Vertical Test Has Low Sensitivity for Identifying Meniere Disease
Optimal cutoff point was 2.1 degrees of deviation toward the lesion, which had sensitivity of 0.698 and specificity of 0.717
Amyloid Probability Score 2 Has High Diagnostic Accuracy for Alzheimer Disease
Diagnostic accuracy 73 percent for dementia specialists compared with 91 percent using the APS2
Lack of Institutional Support May Drive Physician Reluctance to Address Addiction
Other barriers include lack of knowledge, skill, and cognitive capacity
FIT Screening Cuts Risk of Death From Colorectal Cancer
Association between fecal immunochemical tests and lower CRC mortality risk seen across races
Considerable Proportion of Seniors Have Asymptomatic Valvular Heart Disease
In a recent study, the rate of prevalence of clinically significant VHD was 2.4 percent
Out-of-Pocket Costs Considerable, Increasing for Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Testing
Costs increased between 2010 and 2020 for follow-up diagnostic testing after prostate-specific antigen-based screening
Continual Cuffless BP Monitoring Can Classify Time-in-Target-Range Accurately
Configurations paralleling ambulatory and home BP monitoring inaccurately classified considerable proportion of patients versus reference TTR
Models Constructed to Predict Decline Over Time in MCI, Mild Dementia
Hypothetical patients with MCI, baseline MMSE of 28, CSF Aβ1-42 of 925 pg/mL predicted to reach MMSE of 20 after 6.0 years
Transvaginal Ultrasound Triage Strategy for Endometrial Cancer Not Reliable for Black Women at Risk
Significant proportion of those with EC have endometrial thickness below the range of diagnostic threshold for detection on ultrasound
