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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 +4 more
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The risk of transmission of a viral haemorrhagic fever infection in a United Kingdom laboratory [PDF]
, 2017 No abstract ...
Shorten, Robert J., Wilson-Davies, Eleri
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Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018 Introduction:Â The role of ultrasonography in detection of pleural effusion has long been a subject of interest but controversial results have been reported.
Mahmoud Yousefifard +7 more
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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 +5 more
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Which diagnostic tests are most useful in a chest pain unit protocol? [PDF]
, 2005 Background The chest pain unit (CPU) provides rapid diagnostic assessment for patients with acute, undifferentiated chest pain, using a combination of electrocardiographic (ECG) recording, biochemical markers and provocative cardiac testing.
Angelini, K. +4 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. +5 more
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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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Tuberculosis diagnostics and biomarkers: needs, challenges, recent advances, and opportunities [PDF]
, 2012 Tuberculosis is unique among the major infectious diseases in that it lacks accurate rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests. Failure to control the spread of tuberculosis is largely due to our inability to detect and treat all infectious cases of pulmonary
Alexandre Harari +118 more
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Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018 Introduction:Â The potential benefit of ultrasonography for detection of thoracic bone fractures has been proven in various surveys but no comprehensive conclusion has been drawn yet; therefore, the present study aimed to conduct a thorough meta-analytic
Mahmoud Yousefifard +8 more
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Can clinical scoring systems improve the diagnostic accuracy in patients with suspected adult appendicitis and equivocal preoperative computed tomography findings? [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2017 Objective Adult appendicitis (AA) with equivocal computed tomography (CT) findings remains a diagnostic challenge for physicians. Herein we evaluated the diagnostic performance of several clinical scoring systems in adult patients with suspected ...
Min Seok Chae +6 more
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