Introduction:Fecal occult blood test (FOBT) is one of the most popular diagnostic tools for screening colorectal cancer in the inpatient setting. Despite that, its outpatient use has been largely replaced by more advanced tools that decrease cost and increase sensitivity/specificity. This is essential when factors including diet and medications contribute to the low sensitivity and elevated false positive results FOBT demonstrate when detecting gastrointestinal (GI) bleeds
