Colon cancer screenings are an essential part of health care. The lifetime risk of colon cancer is about 1 in 24. Screening used to be offered starting at age 50, but now the USPSTF, the government agency for primary care standards, has recommended that physicians...
Medical tests
Medical Tests Often Not Checked When Ordered on Discharge Day
Medical tests ordered on the day of hospital discharge have a high risk of not being followed up on by the ordering physician, reports Mei-Sing Ong, PhD in a research letter in the Archives of Internal Medicine on August 13th. Of 662,858 tests ordered for 6736...