Cutoff point
Determining the optimal cutoff point for lymph node density and its impact on overall survival in children with Wilms’ tumor
... LND cutoff point is controversial due to methodological shortcomings of previous studies, and no studies have shown the effect of LND on survival in children with ...LND cutoff point was ...
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The cutoff point of clinical chronic obstructive pulmonary disease questionnaire for more symptomatic patients
... CCQ cutoff point of ...CCQ cutoff point of ...CCQ cutoff point of 1.4 was more concordant with an SGRQ cutoff point of 25, when compared to a CCQ cutoff ...
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Determination of Cutoff Point of an Early Energy Target to Maximize Better Clinical Outcomes in SCU Patients with Cerebral Hemorrhage
... First, it is a retrospective study. To draw the definite conclusion of energy intake for CH patients, prospective, randomized study must be necessary. Second, the cutoff point of %EI was resulted from a ...
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Distress or no distress, that's the question: A cutoff point for distress in a working population
... Furthermore, an argument in favor of the application of the chosen cutoff point is the assumption that the induc- tion of interventions can useful for all stressed employees. Interventions based on a ...
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Diagnostic role of interleukin -33 in the differentiation of pleural effusions especially tuberculous and malignant effusions
... The cutoff point of pleural IL-33 level for the diagnosis of tubercu- lous pleural effusion was ...the cutoff point of pleural/ serum IL- 33 ratio for diagnosis of tuberculous pleural effusion ...
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Quantitation of pneumococcal C polysaccharide in sputum samples from patients with presumptive pneumococcal pneumonia by enzyme immunoassay
... Of 34 patient sputum samples collected within 24 h of the first radiographic report of pneumonia, 12 grew Streptococcus pneumoniae on culture.. By using a cutoff point of 0.5 ,ug of PnC [r] ...
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The Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome in Korean Children and Adolescents: Comparisons of the Criteria of Cook et al , Cruz and Goran, and Ferranti et al
... a cutoff point for high blood pressure using the sex-, age-, and height-specific 90th percentile, while this study used a sex- and age-specific 90th percentile cutoff only because of the small number ...
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Assessment of glenohumeral subluxation in poststroke hemiplegia: Comparison between ultrasound and fingerbreadth palpation methods
... and fingerbreadth palpation meth- ods. The ROC curve findings from this study indicate that a cutoff point of ⱖ 0.2 cm could be used to deter- mine the sensitivity and specificity of the ultrasound method ...
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Comparison of Glasgow-Blatchford score and full Rockall score systems to predict clinical outcomes in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding
... The cutoff points were considered for each system yielding high sensitivity but low specific- ity to predict these ...ultimate cutoff point for risk assessment of patients with ...
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Does the association of the triglyceride to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio with fasting serum insulin differ by race/ethnicity?
... a cutoff value to predict the presence of small-density LDL pheno- type; McLaughlin and colleagues found that this cutoff had high sensitivity (79%) and specificity (85%) in the white population ...this ...
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Evaluation of prostate cancer prevalence in Iranian male population with increased PSA level, a one center experience
... a cutoff point for PCa screening, it is relatively difficult to differentiate prostate adenocarcinoma from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in patients with gray-zone PSA levels (4–10 ...
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Increased serum levels of interleukin-10 predict poor prognosis in extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma patients receiving asparaginase-based chemotherapy
... optimal cutoff point of serum IL-10 in prediction of survival was ...discriminative cutoff concentra- tion of serum IL-10 was ...the cutoff value in the present study. In terms of this ...
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Examination of Screening of the Pachinko/Pachislot Playing Disorder Based on Gambling Disorder Scales
... the cutoff points were calculated in two ways for both minor and severe disorder levels ...toff point was obtained where the difference between true-positive and false-positive rates was the largest ...
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The number of prehospital defibrillation shocks and 1-month survival in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
... methodological point in the ...time point from call to ar- rival at the hospital was identified to predict 1-month ...distinct cutoff point exists between two and three ...cut-off point ...
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REAL TIME FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION IN THE PRESENCE OF ROTATION AND PARTIAL OCCLUSIONS
... best cutoff point with respect to datasets and ...and cutoff point with respect to datasets and ...and cutoff point detection with respect to datasets and ...
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Evaluation of cutoff policies for term extraction
... It is important to stress that in all approaches, it is possi- ble to achieve better and worse precision-recall balances, but our claim is that using traditional approaches, there is no simple way to determine whereas a ...
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An empirically generated responder definition for rosacea treatment
... optimal cutoff point for the number of lesions between the patients rated as “clear/minimal” (responders) and “mild to severe” (nonresponders) was determined by a nonparametric discriminant analysis using ...
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Lipid ratios and appropriate cut off values for prediction of diabetes: a cohort of Iranian men and women
... the cutoff points of lipid variables based on equally weighted sensitivity and specificity [13], hence these cut- off points had low sensitivity for predicting diabetes in clinical ...optimal cutoff in the ...
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Waist circumference and insulin resistance: a cross-sectional study of Japanese men
... Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve analysis was employed to determine optimal cutoffs of waist cir- cumference in relation to insulin resistance defined by dif- ferent values of HOMA-IR, with and without ...
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Depressive Symptoms Predict Hospitalization for Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
... Optimal cutoff points, ie, scores at or above which the likelihood of false-negative and false-positive results is lowest, were reported as 12 for boys and 22 for ...these cutoff points, sensitivity and ...
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