For stable, symptomatic patients with suspected CAD who are deemed to be at “minimal risk” using a CT-based tool, deferral of diagnostic testing is just as safe as the usual approach and is even ...

This encyclopedic article outlines evidence-based laboratory tests that are most useful for establishing individualized ...

Approximately 80 percent of patients who have the hepatitis C virus may have been missed through EMR-reliant risk-based testing, according to research from the CDC. The paper, published in Clinical ...

All adults should have their blood tested for hepatitis B — a vaccine-preventable virus that harms the liver — at least once in their life, regardless of their risk factors for the infection, ...

University of California, San Francisco investigators led WISDOM, a randomized comparison of risk-based breast cancer screening and annual mammography. Rates of stage ≥IIB breast cancers met a ...

A prospective trial of gastrointestinal cancer patients showed the feasibility of preemptive genetic testing for DPYD/UGT1A1 variants associated with increased chemotherapy toxicity. Genotype-guided ...

Transitioning to risk-based contracts showed no significant impact on low-value service use or overall healthcare utilization. Difference-in-differences analysis revealed some reductions in specific ...