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

BACKGROUND: The Fecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT) is one of the diagnostic modalities indicated for screening patients for Colorectal Cancer (CRC). Despite being approved only for screening for CRC, numerous studies in the past have illustrated misuse of the FOBT. We examined utilization of the FOBT fo...

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Autores principales: Soin, Sarthak, Akanbi, Olalekan, Ahmed, Abdullah, Kim, Yunha, Pandit, Sarbagya, Wroblewski, Igor, Saleem, Nasir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6724234/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31481027
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-019-1079-9