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Effect of rapid influenza diagnostic tests on patient management in an emergency department [PDF]

Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2019
Objective We evaluated the effect of rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RIDTs) on patient management in an emergency department for 3 years after 2009, and also identified factors associated with the choice of treatment for patients with influenza-like ...
Jong-Hak Park, Hanjin Cho, Sungwoo Moon, Ju-Hyun Song, Ju Young Kim, Yu-Sang Ahn   +5 more
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Application of Ultrasonography and Radiography in Detection of Hemothorax: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018
Introduction: Hemothorax is one of the most prevalent injuries caused by thoracic traumas. Early detection and treatment of this injury is of utmost importance in prognosis of the patient, but there are still controversial debates on the diagnostic ...
Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Mahmoud Yousefifard, Parisa Ghelichkhani, Masoud Baikpour, Abbas Tafakhori, Hadi Asady, Gholamreza Faridaalaee, Mostafa Hosseini, Saeed Safari   +8 more
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Diagnostic Value of Routine Liver Tests

Clinical Chemistry, 1975
Abstract In 131 patients on a medical service and 97 patients on a surgical service, in whom a diagnosis of hepatobiliary disease was verified in the hospital, the diagnostic value of routine liver tests performed soon after admission was evaluated by stepwise discriminant analysis.
P, Winkel, K, Ramsoe, J, Lyngbye, N, Tygstrup   +3 more
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Routine Brain MRI Findings on the Long-Term Effects of COVID-19: A Scoping Review

Diagnostics, 2023
Rationale and Objectives: Post-COVID condition (PCC) is associated with long-term neuropsychiatric symptoms. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in PCC examines the brain metabolism, connectivity, and morphometry. Such techniques are not easily available in
Yuriy Vasilev, Ivan Blokhin, Anna Khoruzhaya, Maria Kodenko, Vasiliy Kolyshenkov, Olga Nanova, Yuliya Shumskaya, Olga Omelyanskaya, Anton Vladzymyrskyy, Roman Reshetnikov   +9 more
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Ultrasonography and Radiography in Detection of Pulmonary Contusion; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018
Introduction: Ultrasonography is currently being used as one of the diagnostic modalities in various medical emergencies for screening of trauma patients.
Mostafa Hosseini, Parisa Ghelichkhani, Masoud Baikpour, Abbas Tafakhori, Hadi Asady, Mohammad Javad Haji Ghanbari, Mahmoud Yousefifard, Saeed Safari   +7 more
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Evaluation of hemoglobin performance in the assessment of iron stores in feto-maternal pairs in a high-risk population: receiver operating characteristic curve analysis

Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia, 2015
Objective: By applying receiver operating characteristic curve analysis, the objective of this study was to see whether hemoglobin levels reflect body iron stores in a group of pregnant women at term who, by using serum ferritin as the reference test ...
José Carlos Jaime-Pérez, Gisela García-Arellano, Nereida Méndez-Ramírez, Óscar González-Llano, David Gómez-Almaguer   +4 more
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Cost effectiveness of using Faecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) as an initial diagnostic investigation for patients with lower gastrointestinal symptoms suggestive of malignancy

BMC Family Practice, 2021
Background There has been an increase in the numbers of patients presenting to primary care with suspected colorectal malignancy and subsequently an increase in demand for endoscopy.
CC Kearsey, C Graham, HS Lobb, J Chacko, R Weatherburn, PS Rooney   +5 more
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Routine Individual Feedback on Requests for Diagnostic Tests

Medical Decision Making, 1996
The authors assessed the economic consequences of routine individual feedback on test requests provided to 85 family physicians in a region with 187,000 inhabitants. In a retrospective study as part of a quasi-experiment, cost trends in a region where feedback was provided over a seven-year period were compared with cost trends elsewhere in The ...
Winkens, R.A.G., Ament, A., Pop, P., Renier, P., Grol, R.P.T.M., Knottnerus, J.A.   +5 more
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meta4diag: Bayesian Bivariate Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Test Studies for Routine Practice [PDF]

Journal of Statistical Software, 2018
This paper introduces the \proglang{R} package \pkg{meta4diag} for implementing Bayesian bivariate meta-analyses of diagnostic test studies. Our package \pkg{meta4diag} is a purpose-built front end of the \proglang{R} package \pkg{INLA}. While \pkg{INLA} offers full Bayesian inference for the large set of latent Gaussian models using integrated nested ...
Guo, Jingyi, Riebler, Andrea Ingeborg
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Overnight Dexamethasone Suppression Test in the Diagnosis of Cushing's Disease [PDF]

Acta Medica Iranica, 2010
"nRealizing the cause of Cushing's Syndrome (CS) is one of the most challenging processes in clinical endocrinology. The long high dose dexamethasone suppression test (standard test) is costly and need an extended inpatient stay.
Fatemeh Esfahanian, Rozana Kazemi
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