COMARE report
Click to access COMARE_16th_Report.pdf
In recent years there has been an emerging use of CT to scan
asymptomatic individuals. This issue was covered in the 12th COMARE report
(COMARE, 2007), which determined that the benefits to the individual would
not be the same as those for a symptomatic patient and that the practice of
whole-body scanning on asymptomatic individuals could not be supported.
Lung CT screening
http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/qa/2002/nlstqaQA
bowel CT screening – uncertain
http://www.trialsjournal.com/content/15/1/97
Click to access CSNZ_PS_ColorectalCancerScreening_16Nov2010.pdf
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/detection/colorectal-screening
Brain MRI
false positives in patients
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8986148
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa070972
http://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b3016
CQC guidance
Click to access gac_-_dec_2011_update.pdf
Info on lung cancer screening
Click to access lung-cancer-screening-for-patients.pdf
Click to access lungcanfact.pdf
new anticoagualants
“Patients were also excluded if their primary care physician judged, on the basis of risk factors for stroke and haemorrhage, that the patient either should or should not be on warfarin. Thus, random allocation of participants to treatments was ethical, because inclusion was restricted to patients for whom there was clinical uncertainty as to which of the two treatments should be used.”
Shared decision aids for atrial fibrillation and medication for stroke prevention
http://sdm.rightcare.nhs.uk/pda/stroke-prevention-for-atrial-fibrillation/
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg180/resources/cg180-atrial-fibrillation-update-patient-decision-aid2
NICE guidance
http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg180/resources/guidance-atrial-fibrillation-the-management-of-atrial-fibrillation-pdf
withheld results from dagibatrin trials
http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g4670
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