[HTML][HTML] COVID-19: Effect on gastroenterology and hepatology service provision and training: Lessons learnt and planning for the future

MR Anjum, J Chalmers, R Hamid… - World journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In late 2019, reports arose of a new respiratory disease in China, identified as a novel
coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The World Health …

FIT negative cancers: a right-sided problem? Implications for screening and whether iron deficiency anaemia has a role to play

L Cunin, AA Khan, M Ibrahim, A Lango, M Klimovskij… - The Surgeon, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction Faecal Immunohistochemistry Testing (FIT) is recommended as an
adjunct to guide referrals from Primary Care for individuals without rectal bleeding, who do …

[HTML][HTML] The use of faecal haemoglobin in deciding which patients presenting to primary care require further investigation (and how quickly)–the FIT approach

JA Strachan, C Mowat - EJIFCC, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Patients presenting to general practitioners (GPs) with new bowel symptoms can be difficult
to assess since symptoms are poor predictors of pathology. National Institute for Health and …

Faecal immunochemical testing (FIT): sources of result variation based on three years of routine testing of symptomatic patients in English primary care

T James, BD Nicholson, R Marr, M Paddon… - British Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: We aimed to determine the analytical capabilities of a commonly used faecal
immunochemical test (FIT) to detect faecal haemoglobin (Hb) in symptomatic people …

Faecal immunochemical testing (FIT): Sources of analytical variation based on three years of routine testing in the context of DG30

T James, BD Nicholson, R Marr, M Paddon, JE East… - medRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Aims To determine analytical capabilities of a commonly used faecal immunochemical test
(FIT) to detect haemoglobin (Hb) in the context of NICE guidance DG30, and the likely use of …

Cancer screening

K Sikora - Medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Cancer screening is a source of much debate. At the interface between public health,
specialist care, economics and public health policy, it creates tensions between professional …

Improving outcomes through colorectal cancer screening

L Parker-Williams - 2021 - rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu
Results: The results did not support the clinical question based on the Mann-Whitney test (z=-
1.168, p=. 254). The COVID-19 pandemic can be a possible reason as to why the results are …

More a hammer than a mirror

A Emmanuel - Clinical Medicine, 2019 - rcpjournals.org
excellent respiratory medicine reviews in the CME section, this edition has much for the
trainee. No reader of ClinMed is unaware of the burden of obesity, and it is a problem that …