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al, it is difficult to say whether the new technology is better at improving patient health, he added.

Weissberg said that the TEC special report was also complicated by the fact that there is no gold-standard diagnostic test for GERD. Reflux is usually diagnosed based on signs and symptoms and by how patients respond to medications or treatments that have worked in others with GERD.

There's no test to double-check the accuracy of the new technology, but after surveying the evidence, Mark's team concludes that the diagnostic performance seems to be about the same for the wired and wireless monitors.

The review also found a strong technical track-record for implanting the wireless probe and getting it to stay in place.

The studies seemed to show that, by and large, they are pretty successful in placing the device 95 to 100 percent of the time," Mark said. "Ideally you'd like the device to stay in place 24 to 48 hours, but sometimes it becomes loose and stops recording properly. The success rate of 48 hours is somewhere between 90 and 98 percent," he said.

But, Mark said, there's no firm evidence that leaving the probe in longer leads to better health, or more accurate diagnosis for the patient.

(Source: Newswis)
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