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Colorectal cancer screening: Why immunochemical fecal occult blood tests may be the best option

Colorectal cancer screening: Why immunochemical fecal occult blood tests may be the best option

... There is high-level evidence about the benefits of screening for CRC using fecal occult blood tests. Meta- analysis of randomized controlled trial evidence of screening for CRC using gFOBTs showed a ...

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Use of a portable system with ultrasound and blood tests to improve prenatal controls in rural Guatemala

Use of a portable system with ultrasound and blood tests to improve prenatal controls in rural Guatemala

... Current prenatal care program in rural Guatemala Prenatal controls in isolated rural areas of Guatemala are achieved by community facilitators (CF), volunteers from a rural community who, having received basic training ...

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Value of computerized inhibitory control test and blood tests in minimal hepatic encephalopathy diagnosis

Value of computerized inhibitory control test and blood tests in minimal hepatic encephalopathy diagnosis

... laboratory tests results and inhibitory tests data between groups of patients with and without ...laboratory tests, ammonia and IL-6 con- ...laboratory blood tests and inhibitory ...

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Venipuncture Is More Effective and Less Painful Than Heel Lancing for Blood Tests in Neonates

Venipuncture Is More Effective and Less Painful Than Heel Lancing for Blood Tests in Neonates

... One reason why heel lancing has been the method of choice could be that it is thought to require less teaching time than venipuncture. The authors of the present study do not agree with this idea. Both theoretical and ...

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Use and abuse of fecal occult blood tests: a community hospital experience

Use and abuse of fecal occult blood tests: a community hospital experience

... Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer worldwide and one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality [1]. In the United States of America (USA), it is the third most common cause of cancer related ...

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A Randomized Trial of Direct Mailing of Fecal Occult Blood Tests To Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening

A Randomized Trial of Direct Mailing of Fecal Occult Blood Tests To Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening

... Several limitations of our study merit discussion. First, the primary outcome was based on self-reports of screening behav- ior, and such self-reported events are subject to respondent error. This error may be ...

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INTERPRETATION OF BLOOD TESTS FOR LIVER DISEASE

INTERPRETATION OF BLOOD TESTS FOR LIVER DISEASE

... Low serum urea concentrations have been recognised previously in association with liver failure and have been suggested to indicate reduced hepatic synthesis of urea from ammonia. However one study found no association ...

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Performance of Commercial Blood Tests for the Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Children and Adolescents

Performance of Commercial Blood Tests for the Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Children and Adolescents

... Binary data were expressed as percentages, continuous normally distributed data were expressed as means ⫾ SD, and as medians otherwise. Comparisons between percentages for paired data were conducted by a Mc- Nemar test, ...

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Evaluation report. Immunochemical faecal occult blood tests CEP09042

Evaluation report. Immunochemical faecal occult blood tests CEP09042

... iFOBT methods are capable of detecting Hb at much lower concentrations which can result in a substantially higher rate of positive results [9]. However, with appropriate adjustment of the cut-off Hb concentration, iFOB ...

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Second-generation blood tests to detect erythropoietin abuse by athletes

Second-generation blood tests to detect erythropoietin abuse by athletes

... a blood sample at the time of competition (either for a health check or conceivably as part of a routine doping control if they obtained a podium finish), the routine Hb and reticulocyte parameters could be used ...

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Lab Results Tracker. A guide to help you understand and track your multiple myeloma blood tests.

Lab Results Tracker. A guide to help you understand and track your multiple myeloma blood tests.

... A measure of the total number of red blood cells (the cells that carry oxygen through your body) in your blood. A low RBC count can be a sign of MM and may be used to help diagnose the disease. Your doctor ...

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Targeted metabolomics in colorectal cancer: a strategic approach using standardized laboratory tests of the blood and urine

Targeted metabolomics in colorectal cancer: a strategic approach using standardized laboratory tests of the blood and urine

... and blood tests, all of which were per- formed at recruiting ...all tests were completed prior to definitive cancer ...of blood tests were very good, ranging from 63% for the AG to 83% ...

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An assessment of various blood collection and transfer methods used for malaria rapid diagnostic tests

An assessment of various blood collection and transfer methods used for malaria rapid diagnostic tests

... large blood drop from the initial finger prick will minimize problems with all devices, and this can be difficult with children in ...of blood, while maintaining blood ...simple blood transfer ...

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The Medicolegal Application of Blood Grouping Tests

The Medicolegal Application of Blood Grouping Tests

... The differences between blood groups are based upon the presence of different factors or agglutinogens in the red cells of different persons and upon a corresponding difference in the pr[r] ...

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Blood transfer devices for malaria rapid diagnostic tests: evaluation of accuracy, safety and ease of use

Blood transfer devices for malaria rapid diagnostic tests: evaluation of accuracy, safety and ease of use

... RDT blood transfer devices, by Luchavez et al [13], assessed blood volumes and ease of use of devices available at the time and assessed the importance of var- iation in blood volume to RDT ...excess ...

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Experimental corn yield tests, maturity tests, and gray leaf spot tests in North Carolina

Experimental corn yield tests, maturity tests, and gray leaf spot tests in North Carolina

... Experinent 46 1988 GIS test for Amarillo Dentado families aver locations Arrlrews, N.. Jackson, Virginia.[r] ...

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Likelihood ratio tests and intersection-union tests

Likelihood ratio tests and intersection-union tests

... Hypothesis tests and op- timality properties in discrete multivariate analysis, in Studies in Econo- metrics, Time Series, and Multivariate Statistics ...intersection-union tests, Institute ...

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Partial tests, universal tests and decomposability

Partial tests, universal tests and decomposability

... Theorem 1.7 is proved using a special test that we call a universal test, that works by selecting every index i for querying with probability ˜ O(n −1/3 −1 ) · log(k), independently of other indexes. We prove in Theorem ...

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Rapid presumptive identification of gram negative rods directly from blood cultures by simple enzymatic tests

Rapid presumptive identification of gram negative rods directly from blood cultures by simple enzymatic tests

... Gram-negative rods were presumptively identified directly from blood cultures within 15 min as Escherichia coli, a member of the Klebsiella-Enterobacter group, or oxidase positive.. Samp[r] ...

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Antimicrobic susceptibility and plasmid profile analysis as identity tests for multiple blood isolates of coagulase negative staphylococci

Antimicrobic susceptibility and plasmid profile analysis as identity tests for multiple blood isolates of coagulase negative staphylococci

... We compared a disk diffusion antimicrobic susceptibility panel with plasmid DNA profiles as tests for identity of 106 isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci cultured from the blood[r] ...

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