%0 Journal Article %A Amy S. Gewirtz %A Kandice Kottke-Marchant %A Michael L. Miller %T The preoperative bleeding time test: assessing its clinical usefulness %D 1995 %J Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine %P 379-382 %V 62 %N 6 %X SUMMARY 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. %U https://www.ccjm.org/content/ccjom/62/6/379.full.pdf