Drug Challenge Tests With General Anesthetics: Predictive Value of Skin Tests [PDF]
Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology, 2020 The study of perioperative drug reactions remains a major challenge for both diagnosis and therapy. The lack of a standard assessment of allergy to general anesthetics and of data establishing the true value of skin tests for most drugs used in induction and maintenance of anesthesia, as well as the lack of commercially available reagents for in vitro ...
Tornero Molina, P. +6 more
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Machine Learning in Falls Prediction; A cognition-based predictor of falls for the acute neurological in-patient population [PDF]
, 2016 Background Information: Falls are associated with high direct and indirect costs, and significant morbidity and mortality for patients. Pathological falls are usually a result of a compromised motor system, and/or cognition. Very little research has been
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Predictive Validity of the Postpartum Depression Predictors Inventory-Revised
Asian Nursing Research, 2011 Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the predictive validity of three versions of the Postpartum Depression Predictors Inventory-Revised (PDPI-R) in Korea.
Ji-Hyang Youn, RN, MSN +1 more
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High-sensitivity cardiac troponin T and copeptin assays to improve diagnostic accuracy of exercise stress test in patients with suspected coronary artery disease [PDF]
, 2014 Background: The average diagnostic sensitivity of exercise stress tests (ESTs) is lower than that of other non-invasive cardiac stress tests. The aim of the study was to examine whether high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) or copeptin ...
Dörr, Oliver +9 more
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A 3-Year Study of Predictive Factors for Positive and Negative Appendicectomies
Journal of Investigative Surgery, 2019 Background: Early and accurate identification or exclusion of acute appendicitis is the key to avoid the morbidity of delayed treatment for true appendicitis or unnecessary appendicectomy, respectively. We aim (i) to identify potential predictive factors
Dwayne T. S. Chang +4 more
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The Indian Anaesthetists' Forum, 2020 Background: The current bedside predictors of the difficult airway are not perfect. A new test, the acromio-axillo-suprasternal notch index (AASI), has been found to be superior to conventional predictors.
Rupesh Sunkam +4 more
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Predictive value of serologic tests. [PDF]
American Journal of Public Health, 1983 An analysis of serologic tests for treponemal disease performed in Australian aboriginal communities is used to illustrate factors influencing the predictive value positive of serologic tests. Simple extrapolation of predictive value estimates, from prevalence, sensitivity, and specificity data, is complicated by variation of specificity between ...
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Prediction of awakening from hypothermic post anoxic coma based on auditory discrimination. [PDF]
, 2016 OBJECTIVE: Most of the available clinical tests for prognosis of post-anoxic coma are informative of poor outcome. Previous work has shown that an improvement in auditory discrimination over the first days of coma is predictive of awakening.
De Lucia, M. +7 more
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Multigene prognostic tests in breast cancer: past, present, future [PDF]
, 2015 There is growing consensus that multigene prognostic tests provide useful complementary information to tumor size and grade in estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancers.
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Predictive value of abbreviated olfactory tests in prodromal Parkinson disease
npj Parkinson's Disease, 2023 There is disagreement in the literature whether olfaction may show specific impairments in Parkinson Disease (PD) and if olfactory tests comprised of selected odors could be more specific for diagnosis.
Pavan A. Vaswani +5 more
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