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Diagnostic Accuracy of Ultrasonography and Radiography in Detection of Pulmonary Contusion; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018
Introduction: Ultrasonography is currently being used as one of the diagnostic modalities in various medical emergencies for screening of trauma patients.
Mostafa Hosseini, Parisa Ghelichkhani, Masoud Baikpour, Abbas Tafakhori, Hadi Asady, Mohammad Javad Haji Ghanbari, Mahmoud Yousefifard, Saeed Safari   +7 more
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Increased use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests improves targeting of anti-malarial treatment in rural Tanzania: implications for nationwide rollout of malaria rapid diagnostic tests. [PDF]

, 2012
: BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization recommends parasitological confirmation of all malaria cases. Tanzania is implementing a phased rollout of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for routine use in all levels of care as one strategy to increase
Baraka Amuri, CIR Chandler, D Bell, D Payne, D Zurovac, Dan Kajungu, DS Ishengoma, HA Williams, IM Masanja, Irene M Masanja, J Faucher, Jacek Skarbinski, L Gilson, LJ Manham, Majige Selemani, Rashid Khatib, S Patrick Kachur, SA Harvey, TJ O’Dempsey, United Republic of Tanzania. Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, V D’Acremont, W Rennie, World Health Organization   +22 more
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Clinical Performance of an Automated Reader in Interpreting Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2013
Parasitological confirmation of malaria is now recommended in all febrile patients by the World Health Organization (WHO) to reduce inappropriate use of anti-malarial drugs.
Ali Mohammed, Caroline Mavere, D Bell, D Njama-Meya, D-S Lee, DN Durrheim, E Nicastri, G Mtove, J Kahama-Maro, KM Learmonth, Marcela Cancino, MI Masanja, ML McMorrow, ML McMorrow, Omar Juma, P Mukadi, P Mukadi, RE Coleman, SA Harvey, Salim Abdulla, Santiago Ferro, Seif Shekalaghe, SP Kachur, V D’Acremont, V D’Acremont, W Rennie, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, YA Afrane, YH Chiu   +32 more
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Diagnostic value of combined serum biomarkers for the evaluation of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C infection: A multicenter, noninterventional, observational study [PDF]

, 2018
Background/Aims: The hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is important cause of chronic hepatitis. Liver biopsy is considered the gold standard for assessment of fibrosis but this procedure is an invasive procedure.
Akhan, S., Aydoǧdu, Ö., Baykam, N., Beslen, N., Bostanci, F., Candan, M., Daǧli, Ö., Demirdal, T., Duyar, E., Erdoǧan, S., Gökal, A.A., Güner, R., Gürbüz, Y., Inan, D., Kaya, A., Kaya, S., Kiliç, S., Kinikli, S., Kuruüzüm, Z., Kökoǧlu, Ö.F., Köksal, I., Leblebicioǧlu, H., Namiduru, M., Parlak, M., Sehmen, E., Tabak, F., Tarakçi, H., Turgut, Hüseyin, Ural, O., Yamazhan, T., Yilmaz, G., Yuluǧkural, Z., Önlen, Y., Özdemir, D., Özdener, F.   +34 more
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Urinary ATP and visualization of intracellular bacteria: a superior diagnostic marker for recurrent UTI in renal transplant recipients? [PDF]

, 2014
Renal transplant recipients (RTR) are highly susceptible to urinary tract infections (UTIs) with over 50% of patients having at least one UTI within the first year.
Alberto Contreras-Sanz, Christopher K Farmer, Claire M Peppiatt-Wildman, Holly R Courtneidge, James Malone-Lee, Jerome Durodie, Kelley, Stephen P, Mark A Harber, Mark C Kelly, Michael P Delaney, Rebecca E Birch, Scott S Wildman, Stephen P Kelley   +12 more
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Evaluation of hemoglobin performance in the assessment of iron stores in feto-maternal pairs in a high-risk population: receiver operating characteristic curve analysis

Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia, 2015
Objective: By applying receiver operating characteristic curve analysis, the objective of this study was to see whether hemoglobin levels reflect body iron stores in a group of pregnant women at term who, by using serum ferritin as the reference test ...
José Carlos Jaime-Pérez, Gisela García-Arellano, Nereida Méndez-Ramírez, Óscar González-Llano, David Gómez-Almaguer   +4 more
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Cost effectiveness of using Faecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) as an initial diagnostic investigation for patients with lower gastrointestinal symptoms suggestive of malignancy

BMC Family Practice, 2021
Background There has been an increase in the numbers of patients presenting to primary care with suspected colorectal malignancy and subsequently an increase in demand for endoscopy.
CC Kearsey, C Graham, HS Lobb, J Chacko, R Weatherburn, PS Rooney   +5 more
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Routine Individual Feedback on Requests for Diagnostic Tests

Medical Decision Making, 1996
The authors assessed the economic consequences of routine individual feedback on test requests provided to 85 family physicians in a region with 187,000 inhabitants. In a retrospective study as part of a quasi-experiment, cost trends in a region where feedback was provided over a seven-year period were compared with cost trends elsewhere in The ...
Winkens, R.A.G., Ament, A., Pop, P., Renier, P., Grol, R.P.T.M., Knottnerus, J.A.   +5 more
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meta4diag: Bayesian Bivariate Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Test Studies for Routine Practice [PDF]

Journal of Statistical Software, 2018
This paper introduces the \proglang{R} package \pkg{meta4diag} for implementing Bayesian bivariate meta-analyses of diagnostic test studies. Our package \pkg{meta4diag} is a purpose-built front end of the \proglang{R} package \pkg{INLA}. While \pkg{INLA} offers full Bayesian inference for the large set of latent Gaussian models using integrated nested ...
Guo, Jingyi, Riebler, Andrea Ingeborg
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Effect of screening abdominal ultrasound examination on the decision to pursue advanced diagnostic tests and treatment in dogs with neurologic disease. [PDF]

, 2015
BackgroundAbdominal ultrasound examinations (AUS) are commonly performed before advanced neurodiagnostics to screen for diseases that might affect diagnostic plans and prognosis.ObjectivesDescribe the type and frequency of abnormalities found by AUS in ...
Blair, WH, Chen, RX, Sturges, BK, Taylor, SL, Tong, NM, Zwingenberger, AL   +5 more
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