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Podcast # 328: No More Hemoccults
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:02:52
Publish Date: 2018-05-09 11:00:00
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Author: Don Stader, MD

Educational Pearls:

  • The use of fecal occult blood tests is falling out of favor in emergency departments.
  • In the ED, small amounts of bleeding are often not clinically significant and can lead to harms and costs of over-testing.
  • They have relatively high false positive and false negative rates.
  • Fecal occult blood tests have strong evidence suggesting their efficacy in cancer screening.

References:

Cuthbert JA, Hashim IA. Diagnostic Fecal Occult Blood Testing in Hospitalized and Emergency Department Patients: Time for Change? Laboratory Medicine. 2018. doi:10.1093/labmed/lmy010.
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