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Brøset Violence Checklist (BVC) versus Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression-Inpatient Version (DASA-IV): their sensitivity, specificity and accuracy as a predictor of violence in 24 hours among schizophrenia patients

Medisains, 2020
Background: Brøset Violence Checklist (BVC) and Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression-Inpatient Version (DASA-IV) are risk assessment instruments of violence that nurses can use in psychiatric services, but their accuracy of the instruments in ...
Wahyu Yuniati, Kuswantoro Rusca Putra, Dhelya Widasmara   +2 more
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Uncertain Times: Clinical Decision-Making in Sickness and in Health

MedEdPORTAL, 2013
Introduction It is increasingly important for medical students to recognize the importance of uncertainty in clinical decision-making. At our institution we implemented a three-part session at the beginning of second-year medical school, prior to organ ...
Laura Willett
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Sensitivity and specificity of SkinVision are likely to have been overestimated

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, 2020
Udrea et al [1] reported 95.1% sensitivity and 78.3% specificity using the SkinVision app for risk assessment of skin lesions. These are likely to be overestimates due to the nature of the study design and flaws in sampling.
J. Deeks, J. Dinnes, H. Williams
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Short Depression Screening Test for Patients with Epilepsy:CES-D with 10 Items [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Psychiatry, 2008
Objective: Depression is the most common co-morbid psychiatric disorder in patients with epilepsy. Yet it remains under recognized and under-treated. For depression screening in this patient need to a convenient questionnaire for patients with epilepsy ...
Mehri Gholami, Hadi Teimoori, Amir Shabani, Morteza Naserbakht, Masood Ahmadzad Asl   +4 more
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Diagnostic methods to cutaneous leishmaniasis detection in domestic dogs and cats [PDF]

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2015
: Cutaneous leishmaniasis is caused by different species of Leishmania. In domestic animals such as dogs and cats, the diagnostic consists of clinical, epidemiological and serological tests, which changes among countries all around the world.
Daliah Alves Coelho Trevisan, Maria Valdrinez Campana Lonardoni, Izabel Galhardo Demarchi   +2 more
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Requirements for Minimum Sample Size for Sensitivity and Specificity Analysis.

Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR, 2016
Sensitivity and specificity analysis is commonly used for screening and diagnostic tests. The main issue researchers face is to determine the sufficient sample sizes that are related with screening and diagnostic studies.
M. Bujang, T. Adnan
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What are sensitivity and specificity?

Evidence Based Journals, 2019
Whenever we create a test to screen for a disease, to detect an abnormality or to measure a physiological parameter such as blood pressure (BP), we must determine how valid that test is—does it measure what it sets out to measure accurately?
A. Swift, R. Heale, Alison Twycross
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Diagnostic accuracy of urine dipstick testing for albumin-to-creatinine ratio and albuminuria: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Heliyon, 2021
Background: The accuracy of urine dipsticks to detect increased albuminuria is uncertain. We aimed to assess the diagnostic accuracy of urine dipsticks for detecting albuminuria.
Jhonatan R. Mejia, Jose Ernesto Fernandez-Chinguel, Gandy Dolores-Maldonado, Naysha Becerra-Chauca, Sergio Goicochea-Lugo, Percy Herrera-Añazco, Jessica Hanae Zafra-Tanaka, Alvaro Taype-Rondan   +7 more
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Novel DNA methylation biomarkers show high sensitivity and specificity for blood-based detection of colorectal cancer—a clinical biomarker discovery and validation study

Clinical Epigenetics, 2019
Early detection plays an essential role to reduce colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality. While current screening methods suffer from poor compliance, liquid biopsy-based strategies for cancer detection is rapidly gaining promise.
S. Jensen, N. Øgaard, M. W. Ørntoft, M. Rasmussen, J. Bramsen, Helle Kristensen, P. Mouritzen, M. Madsen, A. H. Madsen, K. Sunesen, L. Iversen, S. Laurberg, I. Christensen, H. Nielsen, C. Andersen   +14 more
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Sensitivity and specificity of standardised allergen extracts in skin prick test for diagnoses of IgE-mediated respiratory allergies

Clinical and Translational Allergy, 2019
BackgroundSkin prick tests (SPTs) are essential for the diagnosis of IgE-mediated allergy and are influenced by extract quality, biological potency and concentration of allergen.MethodsIn this open multicentre study 431 patients, aged 18–64 years were ...
N. Wagner, M. Rudert
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