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The preoperative bleeding time test: assessing its clinical usefulness
A S Gewirtz1, K Kottke-Marchant, M L Miller
1Department of Anatomic Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA.
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
|November 1, 1995
The bleeding time test can aid in the diagnostic evaluation of patients with clinical hemorrhagic disorders or a history of bleeding. However, its low positive predictive value in predicting perioperative bleeding should force one to abandon it as a routine preoperative screening test.
The bleeding time test can aid in the diagnostic evaluation of patients with clinical hemorrhagic disorders or a history of bleeding. However, its low positive predictive value in predicting perioperative bleeding should force one to abandon it as a routine preoperative screening test.