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Case Reports in Ophthalmology, 2022 A 70-year-old woman was urgently referred for neuro-ophthalmic evaluation when a routine visual field test demonstrated a pattern of bilateral nasal hemianopia.
Ravid Ben-Avi +2 more
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False-positive test results: prevalence, time trends, and factors associated with false-positive serological markers in blood donation screening [PDF]
Hematology, Transfusion and Cell TherapyBackground and Objectives: False-positive serological results in blood donation screening may arise from antibody cross-reactivity, limitations in assay specificity, or low-level reactivity during early-stage infections, ultimately leading to donor ...
Lucas Kallas-Silva +4 more
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Evaluation of false positive and false negative errors in targeted next generation sequencing [PDF]
Genome BiologyBackground Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has become an indispensable diagnostic tool across various diseases. However, sequencing and analysis errors remain major barriers to clinical implementation.
Youngbeen Moon +10 more
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High false-positive response in perimetry
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2023 Background: In Humphrey visual field analyzer, the false-positive (FP) responses imply that the patient has pressed the response button despite no stimulus being seen at the time of response and FP rates >15% are flagged.
Tarannum Mansoori
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Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU, 2023 CONTEXT: Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is a reliable, most noninvasive, cheap, and efficient procedure to differentiate between benign and malignant thyroid nodules.[1] The six proposed Bethesda categories are known to reduce the “gray zone” in thyroid ...
G V Neethu +3 more
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Assessment of Health Monitoring Trustworthiness of Avionics Systems
International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management, 2021 The article provides a methodology for assessing the trustworthiness of health monitoring the dismounted avionics systems with automated test equipment (ATE).
Vladimir Ulansky +2 more
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High positive HIV serology results can still be false positive
IDCases, 2020 The consequences of falsely reactive HIV test results can be significant, for patients and healthcare providers. This case describes a diagnostic investigation of a patient with pronounced discordant HIV serological results, to determine HIV status.
Joanna Reid +5 more
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The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine, 2020 Background Serum IgM (immunoglobulin M) testing is commonly used to diagnose acute viral infections. However, most clinicians are unaware of the vagaries of IgM testing, including antigenic cross-reactivity between multiple viruses and risk misdiagnosis.
Raai Mahmood +5 more
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What do you mean by false positive?
Environmental DNA, 2021 Misunderstandings regarding the term “false positive” present a significant hurdle to broad adoption of eDNA monitoring methods. Here, we identify three challenges to clear communication of false‐positive error between scientists, managers, and the ...
John A. Darling +2 more
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Positive Consequences of False Memories [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2013 Previous research is replete with examples of the negative consequences of false memories. In the current research, we provide a different perspective on false memories and their development and demonstrate that false memories can have positive consequences.
Howe, Mark, Garner, Sarah, Patel, Megan
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