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Positive predictive value of medical student specialty choices
... years. Positive predictive value (PPV) was defined as the number of students at the end of each year who accurately predicted their training specialty (true positives) [15, 16] divided by the total ...
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Positive Predictive Value of BI-RADS Categorization in an Asian Population
... Discussion Our results indicate that BI-RADS categorization remains a useful tool to stratify risk of malignancy in a female popula- tion with increased breast density such as ours. The overall cancer incidence in our ...
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Positive Predictive Value of Administrative Data for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
... We found that ICD-9-CM diagnostic code 779.5 had a 91% PPV for identifying clinically diagnosed NAS. Similarly, we found that ICD- 10-CM diagnostic code P96.1 had a 98.2% PPV for identifying clinically ...
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Intracerebral hemorrhage: positive predictive value of diagnosis codes in two nationwide Danish registries
... Dovepress ICH diagnosis validity in two Danish registries Our study also has some limitations. While our inclu- sion criterion of availability of data through EMR provided several logistic advantages, it also led to ...
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Positive predictive value of peptic ulcer diagnosis codes in the Danish National Patient Registry
... We reviewed records of gastroscopic examinations performed during the hospital contact for peptic ulcer. We considered the diagnosis confirmed if the endoscopist described gastric or duodenal ulcers, or ulcer cicatrices ...
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Positive predictive value of diagnosis coding for hemolytic anemias in the Danish National Patient Register
... patients had begun the diagnostic process or were already diagnosed at a primary hospital and our study thus reflects the accuracy of the diagnosis in the health care region ...
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False-Positive Gonorrhea Test Results with a Nucleic Acid Amplification Test: The Impact of Low Prevalence on Positive Predictive Value
... Cases 2 and 3 occurred within a 2-week period ∼3 months after the first case. The temporal clustering of these cases, com- bined with the psychological impact on the patients and their partners, led to the initiation of ...
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Positive predictive value of pulse oximetry in the screening of critical congenital heart defects in term neonates
... false positive rate for screening of CCHD, than when done ...but had a high false positive ...the positive predictive value (PPV) of each separately and ...
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Completeness and positive predictive value of registration of upper limb embolectomy in the Danish National Vascular Registry
... The overall degree of completeness of an upper limb embolectomy procedure code in the Danish National Vascular Registry was 86.5%, and the estimated number of cases missing in both registries was low. We found a higher ...
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Affective value in the predictive mind
... Wänke and Hansen 2015 ). 4 Feelings and Function Our account implies a fundamental misattribution in emotion. The intuition that emotions are en- tirely caused by objects in the world is misguided, because in fact they ...
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<p>The positive predictive value of spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage diagnoses in the Danish National Patient Register</p>
... Another potential bias is the several changes in elec- tronic medical records systems used during our study period. This posed severe challenges to data access. We experienced that data on deceased patients were not con- ...
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Positive predictive value and misclassification of diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis in Swedish patient registries
... Validation of diagnoses All PE and DVT diagnoses were validated manually. Medi- cal records, radiology reports, and/or autopsy reports were reviewed by three physicians with experience in the field of VTE. The reviewers ...
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Positive predictive value of the ICD-10 hospital diagnosis of pleural empyema in the Danish National Registry of Patients
... the predictive value of a positive registration of ...the predictive value could be ...who had a diagnosis were included), it is unlikely that lack of blinding of the reviewers ...
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Positive predictive value of the diagnosis coding for vitamin B12 deficiency anemia in the Danish National Patient Register
... There are several limitations inherent to the definition of a reference standard for Cbl deficiency anemia and the fol- lowing should be considered when interpreting the results. Our data may indicate that physicians use ...
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Predictive value of CD4 cell count nadir on long-term mortality in HIV-positive patients in Uganda
... Although patients who survive the initial period of most severe disease and possible immune reconstitution inflam- matory syndrome are expected to have a nearly normal life after initiation of ART, 8–10 progressive ...
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Low positive predictive value of midnight salivary cortisol measurement to detect hypercortisolism in type 2 diabetes
... DST, had the following test characteristics: sensitivity: 85% (95% CI: 7–92%), specificity: 14% (95% CI: 10–19%), positive predictive value: 22% (95% CI: 17–27%), negative predictive ...
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Positive predictive value of ICD-10 diagnosis codes for brain abscess in the Danish National Patient Registry
... Results We identified 709 patients with a first-time diagnosis code for brain abscess during the study period. The medical records could not be found for 15 patients, leaving 694 patients for further analyses. The ...
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Positive predictive value of ICD 10 codes for acute myocardial infarction in Japan: a validation study at a single center
... Methods: We selected a random sample of 200 patients from all patients hospitalized at a large tertiary-care university hospital between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2011 who had an inpatient claim assigned a ...
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Use of "biokitHSV 2 Rapid Assay" to improve the positive predictive value of Focus HerpeSelect HSV 2 ELISA
... groups had relatively high HSV-2 seroprevalence by Western blot (WB); 25% of the pregnant women and 22% of the STD group had antibodies to ...falsely positive results when compared with other ...
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Positive predictive value of first-time rheumatoid arthritis diagnoses and their serological subtypes in the Danish National Patient Registry
... this study. It is, however, unlikely that this would have had a substantial impact on the overall results since the number of diagnoses with no sufficient medical records was low (7%). In our study, register-based ...
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