Results 31 to 40 of about 743,467 (306)

The validity of the claims-based definition of rheumatoid arthritis evaluated in 64 hospitals in Japan

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2021
Background An administrative database covering a whole population such as the national database in Japan may be used to estimate the nationwide prevalence of diseases including rheumatoid arthritis (RA) when a well-validated definition of the disease is ...
Kiyoshi Kubota, Masaki Yoshizawa, Satoru Takahashi, Yoshiaki Fujimura, Hiroko Nomura, Hitoshi Kohsaka   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of self-reported BMI classifications by gender.

, 2023
Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of self-reported BMI classifications by gender.
Pei Boon Ooi (11565118), Hooi Chin Beh (14439383), Yook Chin Chia (13570361), Navin Kumar (456620), Felicia Fei Lei Chung (14439389), Siew Mooi Ching (7827842), Ming Tsuey Chew (14439386), Hooi Min Lim (11021820)   +7 more
core   +1 more source

False negatives of screening in large-scale population

Shanghai yufang yixue, 2022
ObjectiveTo explore the changing trend of negative predictive value and number of false negatives in screening tests under the condition of low infection rate of infectious diseases.MethodsAssuming that the population is 20 million， to calculate the ...
XU Ning, TONG Yixin, JIANG Honglin, ZHOU Yibiao, JIANG Qingwu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying incident cancer cases in dispensing claims

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2020
Introduction Dispensing claims are used commonly as proxy measures in pharmacoepidemiological studies; however, their validity is often untested. Objectives To assess the performance of a proxy for identifying cancer cases based on the dispensing of ...
Benjamin Daniels, Hanna E Tervonen, Sallie-Anne Pearson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical Impact of 18F-FDG PET/CT on the Management of Gynecologic Cancers: One Center Experience [PDF]

Asia Oceania Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Biology, 2019
Objective(s): We aim to investigate the clinical impact of 18F-FDG PET/CT in managing patients with gynecological malignancies and pelvic or extrapelvic lymph nodes that are of equivocal significance on conventional imaging.Methods: We retrospectively ...
Akram Al-ibraheem, Abedallatif AlSharif, Ramiz Abu-Hijlih, Imad Jaradat, Asem Mansour   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diagnostic Accuracy of Pre-operative Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Assessing Prognostic Pathological Parameters in Endometrial Carcinoma [PDF]

Liaquat National Journal of Cancer Care, 2020
Introduction: The 2nd most common gynecological malignancy and sixth among commonly diagnosed cancer is Endometrial carcinoma (EC). The risk and prognosis of the disease are assessed by appropriate staging according to the International Federation of ...
Tahira Yasmeen, Sadaf Nasir, Hanna Naqvi
doaj   +1 more source

Specificity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) at different threshold of predicted probability.

, 2023
Specificity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) at different threshold of predicted probability.
Roderick P. Venekamp (10259098), Paul H. J. Giesen (17628128), Kevin Jenniskens (7018346), Lotte Ramerman (12587271), Feike J. Loots (10788421), Arthur R. H. van Zanten (9213500), Marleen Smits (3753820), Artuur M. Leeuwenberg (17628125), Robert Verheij (140391)   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Construct validity of the Danish version of the Work Rehabilitation Questionnaire (WORQ)—sensitivity and specificity of the objectively tested physical capacity items

Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 2023
ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to examine the construct validity of the Danish version of the Work Rehabilitation Questionnaire (WORQ) and to compare the physical capacity items of WORQ to objective, standardized measures of physical capacity and ...
Ida Skovborg Verpe, Katrine Baltzer Thygesen, Reuben Escorpizo, Ole Steen Mortensen, Ole Steen Mortensen, Mette Korshøj, Mette Korshøj   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Extensive transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from 9 year old child with pulmonary tuberculosis and negative sputum smear [PDF]

, 2008
Patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and either a positive sputum smear or cavitating pulmonary lesions have been considered to be infectious1 as these indicate higher bacterial load accumulating with longer duration of infection. The source of infection
Howard, J., Chalkley, D, McEvoy, M., Paranjothy, S, Bracebridge, S, Paranjothy, S., Lack, K., Eisenhut, M, Abubakar, I, Chalkley, D., Thomas, S., McEvoy, M, Eisenhut, M., Lilley, M., Howard, J, Paranjothy, Shantini, Thomas, S, Lilley, M, Mulla, R, Abubakar, I., Bracebridge, S., Lack, K, Mulla, R.   +22 more
core   +1 more source

Analysis of Predictive Values Based on Individual Risk Factors in Multi-Modality Trials

Diagnostics, 2013
The accuracy of diagnostic tests with binary end-points is most frequently measured by sensitivity and specificity. However, from the clinical perspective, the main purpose of a diagnostic agent is to assess the probability of a patient actually being ...
Katharina Lange, Edgar Brunner
doaj   +1 more source