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What Are The Normal Values For The Fecal Occult Test?

I am doing a paper for a Clinical Procedure class and were suppose to find the normal values of a list of tests, one of them being the normal values of a Fecal Occult test, and I cannot find any indications anywhere, can you give me a normal range please?
Wed, 3 May 2017
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Hello and welcome to HCM.

The normal value for Fecal occult blood test is: "Negative" = which means no blood in the stool sample.
"Positive" test result means there is blood in the stool = abnormal value.

Hope this helps.
Good luck with your studies!
Regards.


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What Are The Normal Values For The Fecal Occult Test?

Hello and welcome to HCM. The normal value for Fecal occult blood test is: Negative = which means no blood in the stool sample. Positive test result means there is blood in the stool = abnormal value. Hope this helps. Good luck with your studies! Regards.