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Abandoning presumptive antimalarial treatment for febrile children aged less than five years--a case of running before we can walk? [PDF]

, 2009
Current guidelines recommend that all fever episodes in African children be treated presumptively with antimalarial drugs. But declining malarial transmission in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, declining proportions of fevers due to malaria, and the ...
Catherine Goodman, Goodman Catherine, Snow, RW, Robert W Snow, Reyburn, H, Snow, Robert W., Hugh Reyburn, Snow Robert W, Reyburn Hugh, Snow, Robert, Reyburn, Hugh, Goodman, Catherine, Mike English, Goodman, C, English, M, English, Mike, Snow, Robert W, English Mike   +17 more
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Clinical Application of Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System for Characterizing Liver Neoplasms: A Meta-Analysis

Diagnostics, 2021
The Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) is a comprehensive system for standardizing liver imaging in patients at risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We aimed to determine the diagnostic performance of LI-RADS category 5 (LR5)
Lingling Li, Yixin Hu, Jing Han, Qing Li, Chuan Peng, Jianhua Zhou   +5 more
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Malaria misdiagnosis in Uganda--implications for policy change. [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: In Uganda, like in many other countries traditionally viewed as harbouring very high malaria transmission, the norm has been to recommend that febrile episodes are diagnosed as malaria.
Zurovac, D, John B Rwakimari, Rwakimari, JB, Njogu, JN, Counihan, HC, Rwakimari John B, Snow, Robert, Nankabirwa, Joan, Counihan Helen, Rwakimari, John B., Snow, Robert W, Nankabirwa, JI, Tibenderana, James K., Tibenderana, JK, Njogu Julius N, Njogu, Julius N., Snow, RW, Counihan, Helen, Robert W Snow, Snow Robert W, Snow, Robert W., Zurovac Dejan, Counihan, H, Tibenderana, James K, Rwakimari, John B, Njogu, Julius N, Nankabirwa Joan, Zurovac, Dejan, Nankabirwa, J, Julius N Njogu, Helen Counihan, James K Tibenderana, Tibenderana James K, Joan Nankabirwa, Dejan Zurovac   +34 more
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Biostatistics Series Module 7: The Statistics of Diagnostic Tests

Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2017
Crucial therapeutic decisions are based on diagnostic tests. Therefore, it is important to evaluate such tests before adopting them for routine use. Although things such as blood tests, cultures, biopsies, and radiological imaging are obvious diagnostic ...
A. Hazra, N. Gogtay
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Clinically Driven versus Routine Laboratory Monitoring of Antiretroviral Therapy in Uganda and Zimbabwe [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: Despite funding constraints for treatment programmes in Africa, the costs and economic consequences of routine laboratory monitoring for efficacy and toxicity of antiretroviral therapy (ART) have rarely been evaluated.
Amurwon, Jovita, Abdel G. Babiker (158530), Darbyshire Janet, Antonieta Medina Lara (168787), Antonieta Medina Lara, Charles F. Gilks (164480), Munderi Paula, Wakaholi, Barbara Nyanzi, Walker, A Sarah, Babiker, AG, Elly Katabira, Paula Munderi, Reid Andrew, Kasirye, Ronnie, James Hakim, Andrew Reid, Gibb, Diana M., Janet Darbyshire (59117), Jesse Kigozi (168794), Katabira Elly, Gilks, CF, Gilks, Charles F, Kityo Cissy, Darbyshire, J, Jovita Amurwon, Cissy Kityo, Walker A. Sarah, Kigozi, Jesse, Mugyenyi Peter, Barbara Nyanzi Wakaholi, Gibb, DM, Mugyenyi, Peter, Lara, AM, Walker, AS, Muchabaiwa Lazarus, Reid, Andrew, Peter Mugyenyi (168847), Darbyshire, Janet, Diana M. Gibb (164420), Medina Lara Antonieta, Ssali Francis, Kityo, Cissy, Grosskurth Heiner, Grosskurth, Heiner, Abdel G Babiker, Ruben E. Mujica Mota (168817), Kasirye Ronnie, Nyanzi Wakaholi, B, Jesse Kigozi, Walker, Ann, Wakaholi, BN, Team, Ssali, Francis, Ssali, F, Lazarus Muchabaiwa, Medina Lara, Antonieta, Hakim James, Walker, A. Sarah, Peter Mugyenyi, Janet Darbyshire, Gilks, Charles F., Team, DARTT, DART Trial Team, Diana M Gibb, Muchabaiwa, L, Elly Katabira (10701), A Sarah Walker, Kasirye, R, Ronnie Kasirye (168825), Paula Munderi (164469), Katabira, Elly, Muchabaiwa, Lazarus, Munderi, P, Hakim, J, Gibb, Diana M, Barbara Nyanzi Wakaholi (168811), Mota, Ruben E. Mujica, Gilks Charles F., Amurwon Jovita, Jovita Amurwon (168800), James Hakim (164478), Babiker, Abdel G, Amurwon, J, Charles F Gilks, Kityo, C, Nyanzi Wakaholi, Barbara, Babiker, Abdel G., Gibb Diana M., Mota, REM, Cissy Kityo (168842), Mujica Mota, Ruben E, Heiner Grosskurth (37057), Ruben E Mujica Mota, Reid, A, Medina-Lara, A, Kigozi Jesse, Francis Ssali, Mujica Mota Ruben E., Andrew Reid (168831), A. Sarah Walker (145609), Heiner Grosskurth, Lara, Antonieta Medina, Katabira, E, Ronnie Kasirye, Munderi, Paula, Grosskurth, H, Hakim, James, Francis Ssali (158549), Mujica-Mota, Ruben, Lazarus Muchabaiwa (168805), Kigozi, J, Mugyenyi, P, Nyanzi Wakaholi Barbara, Babiker Abdel G.   +113 more
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Malaria "diagnosis" and diagnostics in Afghanistan. [PDF]

, 2012
In many malaria-endemic areas, including Afghanistan, overdiagnosis of malaria is common. Even when using parasite-based diagnostic tests prior to treatment, clinicians commonly prescribe antimalarial treatment following negative test results.
Rowland, Mark, Wood, Molly, Kizito, James, Mayan, Ismail, Reynolds, Joanna, Mikhail, Amy, Ahmad, Tamanna, Motahed, Mohibullah, Anwari, Nadia, Karimullah, Karimullah, Baktash, Sayed Habib, Leslie, Toby, Chandler, Clare, Hazansai, Anwar   +13 more
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Measuring fibrinolysis: from research to routine diagnostic assays

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2018
Development and standardization of fibrinolysis methods have progressed more slowly than coagulation testing and routine high‐throughput screening tests for fibrinolysis are still lacking. In laboratory research, a variety of approaches are available and
C. Longstaff
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Validating blood tests as a possible routine diagnostic assay of Alzheimer’s disease

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics, 2023
In recent years, exciting developments in disease modifying treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD) have made accurate and timely diagnosis of this disease a priority. Blood biomarkers (BBMs) for amyloid pathology using improved immunoassay and mass spectrometry techniques have been an area of intense research for the last 10 years and are coming to ...
Kodosaki, Eleftheria, Zetterberg, Henrik, Heslegrave, Amanda   +2 more
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Should Diagnostic Curettage be Abandoned?

South African Family Practice, 1994
No abstract available.
P.R. de Jong
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Diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19: accuracy of signs and symptoms; molecular, antigen, and antibody tests; and routine laboratory markers

, 2020
Objectives: This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (diagnostic). The objectives are as follows:. To assess the diagnostic accuracy of laboratory real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and other laboratory molecular tests to determine if a person ...
J. Deeks, J. Dinnes, Y. Takwoingi, C. Davenport, M. Leeflang, R. Spijker, L. Hooft, A. Bruel, Devy Emperador, S. Dittrich   +9 more
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