[PDF] Top 20 Development and validation of a prognostic score during tuberculosis treatment

... The study was conducted at the Yaounde Jamot Hospital (YJH), which is a reference hospital for TB and respira- tory diseases for the Capital City of Cameroon (Yaounde) and surrounding areas. YJH hosts a diagnosis and ... See full document

... with score 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 at 1 year was ...PECAR score will help us to determine whether CHC surveillance after resection is ...PECAR score may facilitate the improvement of postoperative ... See full document

... ple prognostic score to predict mortality during treat- ment of TB-DM patients using only nine variables, which are routinely collected by most TB control pro- gram at the patients’ initial visits ... See full document

... compare prognostic scores from individ- ual patient data across different ...external validation of the scores in a consistent analysis explicitly including correlations be- tween the scores on a cohort ... See full document

... Statistical analyses were done using IBM v22.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA). Survival outcomes were estimated using the Kaplan – Meier method and compared with the log-rank test. All analyses were two-sided; the level of signi ... See full document

... preventive treatment and concurrently address poverty-related risk factors that drive the tuberculosis epidemic and cluster in tuberculosis-affected ...all tuberculosis-affected households, ... See full document

... The median number of daily administrations for the antidiabetic medication (insulin and/or oral antidiabetics) was two (one to six). The median caregivers’ satisfaction with the blood glucose levels was three (one to ... See full document

... Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality and the fifth most common malignancy worldwide. 1 In 2012, it was estimated that approximately 700,000 people globally die of ... See full document

... HCC is one of the most common cancers and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, accounting for more than half of all cases and deaths in China. 3,25 Thus, more precise treatment guidelines and ... See full document

... It is well documented that using a nomogram can ac- curately predict the association between significant fac- tors and estimated outcomes by creating an intuitive graph, based on the digital multiple relationships in a ... See full document

... calibration. Furthermore, they exhibited excellent predictive ability of the 5- and 10-year OS and CSS compared with the classic TNM staging system. Our nomogram models were easily used clinical tools which would ... See full document

... warrants treatment 13,14 . Where possible, we therefore focus validation in this study on prediction of aggressive disease, defined as any tumor that would require radical treatment for a typical, ... See full document

... for tuberculosis diagnosis), we developed 4 different models: (1) all predictors integrated, (2) QFT excluded, (3) abdominal ultrasonography excluded, and (4) both QFT and abdominal ultrasonography ...internal ... See full document

... for Treatment To devise and validate the clinical scoring system, there needs to be a standard against which the decision to prescribe IV or oral antibiotics is ...antibiotic treatment after review at 24 ... See full document

... internal validation was carried out by using the bootstrap resampling method, external validation studies are needed to further validate the performance of Eleven-lncRNA signature in different ... See full document

... (SOFA) score is assessed to evaluate its efficacy as a diagnostic ...SOFA score distributions in the days leading up to patient mortality and patient ...SOFA score is not an effective predictor of ... See full document

... developing tuberculosis, since the risk of morbidity due to tuberculosis in these patients is ...pulmonary tuberculosis while being treated for head and neck ...developed tuberculosis and were ... See full document

... CARe score for predicting 1-year late PSE risk. This score classifies late PSE risk level on the basis of patient disease condition on stroke ...this score as an additional tool for improving late ... See full document

... To identify risk factors that optimally separate patients at low risk for candidemia from those at high risk, we used a recursive partition (RPART) approach [23]. Also referred to as classifi- cation and regression tree ... See full document

... The tuberculosis is an endemic disease in our country; it remains a major public health ...splenic tuberculosis is a classic disease which represents ... See full document