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81. A.3-1 Patient Focus Group Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - Spanish) 4.b-3 Web Links to CDC Patient Information on CRC Screening 4.b-4 Stool Test Kit Request … Card 4.c-1 Letter to Patient for Responding to Stool Test Kit Requests 4.d-1 Reminder Letter to … 5.a-1 Master Patient Database Elements 5.d-1 Chart Audit Review Form 6.a-1 Feedback Form for Stool … Test Positive 6.a-2 Feedback Form for Stool Test Negative 6.b-1 Feedback Form for CDE A.1-2 Practice … Do you feel there was a need for more colorectal cancer screening choices (beyond stool blood test and

82. Women: Stay Healthy at Any Age (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2014 - Several tests -- for example, a stool test or a colonoscopy -- can detect this cancer. … for high blood pressure. … High Blood Cholesterol. … Have your blood cholesterol checked regularly with a blood test if: ■ You use tobacco. … High Blood Pressure. Have your blood pressure checked at least every 2 years.

83. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infections (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2019 - Leukocytosis may be present and on average the serum white blood cell count is approximately 15,000 … The test is performed by adding a prepared stool sample to a monolayer of cultured cells. … Or the initial test might be a nucleic acid test followed by the EIA to evaluate for toxin production … formed stool samples for C. … Only test stool for C. difficile when clinical criteria are met!

84. Helicobacter Pylori Infections | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    If you have symptoms of a peptic ulcer, your doctor will test your blood, breath or stool to see if it

85. Appendix E. Culture Type Map to Procedure Types | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - Manuscript TYPE CABG HIP KNEE HERNIA URINE         BLOOD … 1 1 1 1 STOOL         SPUTUM         NARES         …   TONGUE         COCCYX         CHEEK         DONOR BLOOD

86. Lactose Intolerance | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    You may also have Gas Diarrhea Swelling in your stomach Your doctor may do a blood, … breath or stool test to find out if your problems are due to lactose intolerance.

87. Part 2: Trends in Priorities of the Heckler Report—Care for Cancer | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2018 - Most Recent Disparity Disparity Change Men and women ages 50-75 who report that they had a blood … stool test in the past year, sigmoidoscopy in the past 5 years and blood stool test in the past 3 years … Effective screening modalities include fecal occult blood testing (FOBT), FOBT with flexible sigmoidoscopy … 100,000 women age 20 and over Worse Narrowing Men age 75+ without prostate cancer who had a PSA test

88. Health Topics | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    The stem cells can develop into the red blood cells that carry oxygen through your body, the white blood … cells that fight infections, and the platelets that help with blood clotting. … It's a long, hollow tube at the end of your digestive tract where your body makes and stores stool. … They are in your blood, urine and body fluids. … Maintaining the right balance of electrolytes helps your body's blood chemistry, muscle action and other

89. Treating Localized Prostate Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    January 21, 2016 - PSA blood test: This blood test tells how much PSA (a protein made by the prostate gland) is in your … blood. … During checkups, your doctor may do a digital rectal exam, a PSA blood test, a biopsy, or other tests … test. … You may need surgery to fix the hernia. § Such as diarrhea, blood in the stool, leaking stool from the

90. Modeling Study: Colorectal Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    May 18, 2021 - suggest that test results are correlated. … The cumulative risk of false-positive fecal occult blood test after 10 years of colorectal cancer screening … ; MISCAN, Microsimulation Screening Analysis; sDNA-FIT, multitarget stool DNA test with a fecal immunochemical … Screening test/test characteristic Value Source FIT (per person) Specificity … (with positivity cutoff of 20 μg of hemoglobin per gram of feces); sDNA-FIT, multitarget stool DNA test

91. Translation of a C. difficile Treatment Clinical Pathway Into Machine-Readable Clinical Decision Support Artifacts Prototyped for Electronic Health Record Implementation (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2019 - (Figure 2) contained the following statement: “Diagnose a recurrent CDI if positive C. difficile test … fever, high white blood cell count, >= 3 documented liquid stools in 24 hours) -- excluded O1: Stop … D3: Diagnose Recurrent CDI Treatment Selection Diagnose as recurrent CDI if positive C. diff test … Which C. diff test (any?) … Could also interpret positive test differently, given some patients are positive by EIA, and some by

92. Translation of a C. difficile Treatment Clinical Pathway Into Machine-Readable Clinical Decision Support Artifacts Prototyped for Electronic Health Record Implementation (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2019 - (Figure 2) contained the following statement: “Diagnose a recurrent CDI if positive C. difficile test … fever, high white blood cell count, >= 3 documented liquid stools in 24 hours) -- excluded O1: Stop … D3: Diagnose Recurrent CDI Treatment Selection Diagnose as recurrent CDI if positive C. diff test … Which C. diff test (any?) … Could also interpret positive test differently, given some patients are positive by EIA, and some by

93. Prostate-Cancer-Therapies-Update Consumer (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2016 - � PSA blood test: This blood test tells how much PSA (a protein made by the prostate gland) is in … your blood. … During checkups, your doctor may do a digital rectal exam, a PSA blood test, a biopsy, or other tests … test. … § Such as diarrhea, blood in the stool, leaking stool from the rectum, and rectal pain.

94. Prostate-Cancer-Therapies-Update Consumer (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2016 - � PSA blood test: This blood test tells how much PSA (a protein made by the prostate gland) is in … your blood. … During checkups, your doctor may do a digital rectal exam, a PSA blood test, a biopsy, or other tests … test. … § Such as diarrhea, blood in the stool, leaking stool from the rectum, and rectal pain.

95. Stomach Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    In advanced cases, there may be blood in your stool, vomiting, unexplained weight loss, jaundice, or … Doctors diagnose stomach cancer with a physical exam, blood and imaging tests, an endoscopy, and a biopsy

96. Colorectal Cancer Screening: An Updated Modeling Study for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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    May 18, 2021 - Screening Test Characteristics Used in the Analysis Screening test/test characteristic Value Source … (with positivity cutoff of 20 μg of hemoglobin per gram of feces); sDNA-FIT, multitarget stool DNA test … ; MISCAN, Microsimulation Screening Analysis; sDNA-FIT, multitarget stool DNA test with a fecal immunochemical … that test results are correlated. … The cumulative risk of false-positive fecal occult blood test after 10 years of colorectal cancer screening

97. Statistical Brief #65: Hospitalizations for Gastrointestinal Bleeding in 1998 and 2006 (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2008 - Hospital discharges with a diagnosis of ‘blood in stool’ were coded as unspecified GI bleeding. … ‘Blood in stool’ could be associated with either upper GI bleeding or lower GI bleeding depending on … About 23 percent of these discharges had a diagnosis of ‘blood in stool’ (not shown in tables). … Table 3 shows that hospital stays for patients with any diagnosis of blood in the stool declined 4 percent … Blood in stool (Hematochezia/Melena): 578.1 Hemorrhage of gastrointestinal tract unspecified: 578.9

98. Peptic Ulcer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    March 05, 2012 - To see if you have an H. pylori infection, your doctor will test your blood, breath, or stool.

99. Treating Localized Prostate Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 01, 2020 - PSA blood test: This blood test tells how much PSA (a protein made by the prostate gland) is in your … blood. … During checkups, your doctor may do a digital rectal exam, a PSA blood test, a biopsy, or other tests … test. … § Such as diarrhea, blood in the stool, leaking stool from the rectum, and rectal pain. §§ Such

100. Part 2: Trends in Priorities of the Heckler Report—Care for Cancer | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2018 - Most Recent Disparity Disparity Change Men and women ages 50-75 who report that they had a blood … stool test in the past year, sigmoidoscopy in the past 5 years and blood stool test in the past 3 years … Effective screening modalities include fecal occult blood testing (FOBT), FOBT with flexible sigmoidoscopy … 100,000 women age 20 and over Worse Narrowing Men age 75+ without prostate cancer who had a PSA test