New Guidelines Aim To Get More People Screened For Lung Cancer keranews.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from keranews.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Improved screenings Many of us have heard colonoscopy stories and may have preconceived notions about what the procedure does and doesn’t entail. But the colonoscopy gets a bad rap. Since the 1980s, the procedure has improved in notable ways. For example, nowadays colonoscopies are an outpatient procedure and take less than an hour. There is light sedation and the patient is asleep the entire time, so he or she doesn’t feel any pain or discomfort. In fact, most people can still work the day before a colonoscopy and start the procedure prep the afternoon or evening before. The other good news is that many Independence Blue Cross members have $0
Apr 15, 2021
WEDNESDAY, April 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to ascertain the balance of benefits and harms of screening asymptomatic adults for vitamin D deficiency. These findings form the basis of a final recommendation statement published in the April 13 issue of the
Journal of the American Medical Association.
Leila C. Kahwati, M.D., M.P.H., from the RTI International-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Evidence-Based Practice Center, and colleagues reviewed the evidence relating to screening for vitamin D deficiency in adults. Data were included from 46 studies, with 16,205 individuals. The researchers found that no studies directly examined the health benefits or harms of screening. Treatment was not significantly linked with mortality, any fractures, incidence of diabetes, incidence of cardiovascular disease, incidence of cancer, or depression among community-dwelling
April 14, 2021 On March 9,
AuntMinnie.com reported that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) had doubled down on its recommendation for shared decision-making in CT lung cancer screening, prompting the question among critics of exactly how useful shared decision-making is for this particular use. Dr. Fred Grannis Jr.
To address the question, it is necessary to review the history of shared decision-making and decision aids for lung cancer screening. As I have earlier reported on
AuntMinnie.com,
1 the idea of shared decision-making originated with Dr. Peter Bach, who had served as senior advisor to the director of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
USPSTF: No Signs of Vitamin Deficit? Skip Screening physiciansweekly.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from physiciansweekly.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.