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Podcast: Surfing the MASH Tsunami
Episode: S3-E13.1 - NICE Assesses FibroScan Community Screening: Analytic Tensions
Description: Episode 13 looks at the NICE Draft Guidance Evaluating FibroScan use in Community and Primary Care settings. This conversation focuses on the basic way that NICE approaches issues like this one and tensions between that approach and the health and wellness outcomes this kind of screening might provide.As Roger Green mentions when starting this conversation, Surfing the NASH Tsunami usually advocates for early prevention and wellness care as key strategies for fighting the coming NASH pandemic. The issue is that NICE answers relatively specific questions using rigorous cost analyses. At this point in time, the caliber of...