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A O Berg

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Sickle cell disease: screening, diagnosis, management, and counseling in newborns and infants. The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.

The AHCPR guideline on sickle cell disease has several strengths and many weaknesses. For the practicing physician it is strongest in recommending medical management of infants with sickle cell disease but weakest on screening and education and counseling. The evidence-based methodology should have been presented in more detail. Until that occurs, family physicians are left with this guideline as a summary of expert opinions with variable documentation of the underlying science.

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Screening for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a report from the United States Preventive Services Task Force.

The analysis of screening for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis published by the USPSTF is an important document, both because it reintroduces the task force as an important player in the clinical policies business and because it points (once again) to the deficiencies in our scientific understanding of a relatively common condition. Certainly medicolegal, cost, outcome, and patient preference issues not completely accounted for in the task force analysis need to be included in a fully developed clinical policy for this condition. The findings allow family physicians to use their own judgment pending publication of better and more complete data. On the whole the USPSTF analysis suggests that a nonaggressive approach toward screening is indicated until we have evidence clearly pointing one direction or the other.

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