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Podcast # 327: No More Hemoccults
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3 minutes
Released:
May 9, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
Author: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: The use of fecal occult blood tests is falling out of favor in emergency departments These tests have strong evidence suggesting their efficacy in colon cancer screening but clinical significance in ED is limited They have relatively high false positive and false negative rates Small/microscopic bleeding are often not clinically significant in the ED but can lead to increased costs from over-testing and other harms from fecal occult blood testing References: Gupta A, Tang Z, Agrawal D. Eliminating In-Hospital Fecal Occult Blood Testing: Our Experience with Disinvestment. American Journal of Medicine. (2018). 10.1016/j.amjmed.2018.03.002
Released:
May 9, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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