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Development and evaluation of a risk assessment tool to improve clinical triage accuracy for colonoscopic investigations.

Anton R LordLisa A SimmsAllison BrownKatherine HaniganKrupa KrishnaprasadBelinda SchoutenAnthony R CroftMark N AppleyardGraham L Radford-Smith
Published in: BMC cancer (2018)
It is critical that individuals with high risk of having SBD are triaged to the appropriate category with the shortest wait time. Here we provide evidence that a combination of blood markers, demographic markers and the FIT test have a higher diagnostic accuracy for SBD than FIT alone.
Keyphrases
  • risk assessment
  • emergency department
  • human health
  • heavy metals