PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Amy S. Gewirtz AU - Kandice Kottke-Marchant AU - Michael L. Miller TI - The preoperative bleeding time test: assessing its clinical usefulness DP - 1995 Nov 01 TA - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine PG - 379--382 VI - 62 IP - 6 4099 - http://www.ccjm.org/content/62/6/379.short 4100 - http://www.ccjm.org/content/62/6/379.full SO - Cleve Clin J Med1995 Nov 01; 62 AB - 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.