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Mcdonald Diagnostic Criteria for Pediatric MS
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2012 Researchers at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto and other centers in Canada used serial clinical and MRI examinations performed over a minimum of 24 months to retrospectively evaluate the 2010 and 2005 McDonald criteria for the ...
J Gordon Millichap
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BMC Psychiatry, 2018 Background The aims of this study were to explore the relationship between early reduction in psychotic symptoms and the ultimate response in patients with schizophrenia treated by atypical antipsychotics, and to determine the best time to switch or ...
Yi-Lung Chen +4 more
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Part 2: Positive and negative predictive values of diagnostic tests
Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018 I n volume 3, number 2, pages 48-49, we explained some screening characteristics of a diagnostic test in an educational manuscript entitled “Simple definition and calculation of accuracy, sensitivity and specificity" (1).
Saeed Safari +3 more
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Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2023 Background: Postpartum haemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal mortality globally and in sub-Saharan Africa. The shock index( ratio of the pulse to systolic pressure) is a quicker and more objective assessment tool for assessing the risk of ...
Joel Njagala Calls Lwasa +4 more
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BMC Medicine, 2021 Background Different risk-based colorectal cancer (CRC) screening strategies, such as the use of polygenic risk scores (PRS), have been evaluated to improve effectiveness of these programs.
Mireia Obón-Santacana +14 more
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Positive Predictive Value of a Health History Questionnaire [PDF]
Military Medicine, 2002 The U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) is one of the nation's military universities, with the mission to educate and motivate cadets to be career Air Force officers. This diverse population arrives at the USAFA with varying immunization records and disease histories. Analyses of costs and benefits regarding immunization strategies rely on accurate data and
Bruce R, Burnham +2 more
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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 +5 more
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Positive predictive value of medical student specialty choices
BMC Medical Education, 2018 Background Although medical school programs oriented toward postgraduate specialty training have the potential to reduce the duration and cost of medical school for US medical students, success depends on the ability of students to predict their ...
M. Douglas Jones +3 more
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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 +2 more
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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
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