Positive Predictive Values
Positive predictive values of ICD-10 codes to identify incident acute pancreatitis and incident primary malignancy in the Scandinavian national patient registries among women with postmenopausal osteoporosis
... estimate positive predictive values (PPVs) of International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) codes to identify cases of incident acute pancreatitis leading to hospitaliza- tion and ...
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Positive predictive values of International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision codes for dermatologic events and hypersensitivity leading to hospitalization or emergency room visit among women with postmenopausal osteoporosis in the Danish and Swedish national patient registries
... estimated positive predictive values (PPVs) of International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision (ICD-10) codes for primary diagnoses of dermatologic events and hypersensitivity recorded at ...
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Positive predictive values of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision diagnoses of Gram-negative septicemia/sepsis and urosepsis for presence of Gram-negative bacteremia
... Several studies have validated diagnosis codes of sepsis in administrative databases, but only a few studies examined the potential of using septicemia or sepsis diagnosis codes to identify patients with documented ...
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Interpretation of gene associations with risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome: P values, Bayes factors, positive predictive values, and need for replication
... SNPs and severity of ARDS in children is low given the low prior probability, the modest BF (reflected in modest P values and power), and potential for bias. This is not necessarily a problem if our interest is in ...
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Use of "biokitHSV 2 Rapid Assay" to improve the positive predictive value of Focus HerpeSelect HSV 2 ELISA
... low positive predictive values in low prevalence ...false positive diagnoses is high confirmatory testing is routine for other viral serologies such as HIV and hepatitis ...
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Use of the urinary trypsinogen 2 dipstick test in early diagnosis of pancreatitis after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
... We found that the elevations of serum lipase have high negative and positive predictive values which were both 100%, the negative predictive value for the serum amylase was 100% but the [r] ...
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FEVER SENSITIVITY AND ITS ATTRIBUTABLE FRACTION IN MALARIA DIADGNOSIS AMONG CHILDREN IN MAKURDI NIGERIA
... for clinical diagnosis of malaria for treatment, but in practice, the use of fever to diagnose malaria is not completely abandoned. This study investigated the sensitivity of fever in malaria diagnosis and its ...
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Usefulness of PCR and Antigen Latex Agglutination Test with Samples Obtained by Transthoracic Needle Aspiration for Diagnosis of Pneumococcal Pneumonia
... 83.3%, positive predictive values of ...negative predictive values of ...90.0%, positive predictive values of ...negative predictive values of ...
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Comparing Predictive Values of Two diagnostic tests
... of predictive values, can be written as the difference in conditional ...the positive predictive value, and logit{E(D = 0|T 1 = 0)} − logit{E(D = 0|T 2 = 0)} for the difference in the negative ...
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Quantitative data from the SeptiFast real time PCR is associated with disease severity in patients with sepsis
... PCR positive results not being confirmed by a positive BC, and vice ...A positive PCR but a negative BC can occur due to fastidious microbes, sub-optimal culture conditions or antibiotic treatment ...
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Mature Glycoprotein G Presents High Performance in Diagnosing Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Infection in Sera of Different Tanzanian Cohorts
... and positive predictive values of 96% for blood donors and a negative predictive value of 95% and a positive predictive value of 97% for the GUD ...
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Multicenter Evaluation of Genechip for Detection of Multidrug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis
... the positive grade of the sputum smears influenced the judgment of results by ...“scanty” positive grade. However, the positive grade of the specimens showed no influence on the accuracy of ...
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Comparative Analysis of Serologic Screening Tests for the Initial Diagnosis of Celiac Disease
... The combination of AGA and EMA testing for each patient was compared with the histologic changes on the duodenal biopsies, the latter classi- fied as characteristic of celiac disease, as abnormal but nondiagnostic, or as ...
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<p>BRAF mutation in cytologically indeterminate thyroid nodules: after reclassification of a variant thyroid carcinoma</p>
... the positive BRAF mutation might be useful for making a decision to perform surgery instead of undertaking close follow-up in cases of a cytologically indeterminate category of thyroid ...
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Original Article p40 (ΔNp63) expression in breast disease and its correlation with p63 immunohistochemistry
... and specific marker for this type of breast can- cer, showing over 90% expression frequency [3]. In our study, however, the expression rate for each myoepithelial cell marker was much lower than previously reported. We ...
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Classifying perinatal mortality using verbal autopsy: is there a role for nonphysicians?
... Chowdhury et al. reported on the use of medical assis- tants (with three years of institutional training) in a sin- gle site in Matlab, Bangladesh, to interpret neonatal VA data and assign COD [27]. When specific ...
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Diagnosis of premature rupture of membranes by assessment of urea and creatinine in vaginal washing fluid
... false positive and negative results obtained through applying conventional diagnostic methods in the suspected cases of PROM may result in inappropriate interventions such as hospitalization and induction of labor ...
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Measurement of Urinary Lactoferrin as a Marker of Urinary Tract Infection
... The usefulness of the measurement of urinary lactoferrin (LF) released from polymorphonuclear leukocytes and of an immunochromatography test strip devised for measuring urinary LF for the simple and rapid diagnosis of ...
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Can Vaginal Washing Fluid Urea, Creatinine and Qualitative β hCG Diagnose Suspected Premature Rupture of Membranes?
... All patients were subjected to full history taking, general and abdominal examination and sterile Cusco spe- culum examination. A cotton tip applicator was inserted in posterior vaginal fornix and immediately transferred ...
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Improved Diagnosis of Strongyloides stercoralis Using Recombinant Antigen-Based Serologies in a Community-Wide Study in Northern Argentina
... accurate predictive values obtained with the cutoff values calculated for each serologic method would allow the use of both LIPS-based methods or the CrAg- ELISA at various clinical ...as ...
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