Screening for Thyroid Disease: An Update Purpose: To review information on the benefits of screening with a sensitive thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) test for thyroid dysfunction in asymptomatic... M Helfand,CC Redfern - 《Annals of Internal Medicine》 被引量: 496发表: 1998年 Screening and Tr...
Objectives To develop a crude screening method for detecting biomarkers which frequently exhibit a rise (or fall) in level prior to a serious event (e.g. a stroke) in patients with a chronic disease, signalling that the biomarker may have an alarm-raisin
One of the issues highlighted in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) clinical trials is the lack of appropriate outcome measures. The aim of this multicentric study was to evaluate the 6-min walk test (6MWT) as tool to monitor the natural history of a co
| Andrew School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University Kudos to Professor Arkes and his co authors for their work to determine if physicians can competently assess the risks and benefits of a screening procedure, laboratory test and invasive procedure. Given the 40 years that I have practiced...
A screening showed a high distress score of 8 on the distress thermometer (DT; see the “Measurements” section for questionnaire details; National Comprehensive Cancer Network, 2003). The patient reported problems on physical (including diarrhea, fatigue, memory, concentration, pain, sleep, and tin...
Carrier screening began 50 years ago with screening for conditions that have a high prevalence in defined racial/ethnic groups (e.g., Tay–Sachs disease in the Ashkenazi Jewish population; sickle cell disease in Black individuals). Cystic fibrosis was the first medical condition for which panethni...
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Breast cancer is a global health issue affecting 2.3 million women per year, causing death in over 600,000. Mammography (and biopsy) is the gold standard for screening and diagnosis. Whilst effective, this test exposes individuals to radiation, has limit
Clinicians are encouraged to document the reasons for the use of a particular procedure or test, whether or not it is in conformance with this statement. Clinicians also are advised to take notice of the date this statement was adopted, and to consider other medical and scientific information th...
Sampling of throat swabs is conducive to early rapid screening for flu because of the fast test, but it has a relatively high false negative rate. (2) Respiratory virus nucleic acid. The detection of respiratory virus nucleic acid is commonly used to detect the infection by other common ...