Sentences with phrase «clinical significance of the results»

Three empirically derived cut - off criteria (44, 39 27) were used for the CAPS, and one cut - off level for the BDI (10), in order to assess the clinical significance of the results.

Not exact matches

Clinical biochemistry departments provide rapid, high - quality analytical results on samples from patients, interpreting the significance of the data obtained and advising on whether further investigations are needed.

«These results are encouraging and further demonstrate the clinical significance of the BRCA cancer genes outside of breast and ovarian, and not just in women,» Domchek said.

Again, this unavoidable variation usually is of no clinical significance — the results always indicate EPI (or normal).

This is of clinical significance, since anaerobic bacteria have a much greater potential to damage the intestinal brush borderand cause malabsorption; in addition, anaerobes, especially Bacteroides, are the major cause of bile salt deconjugation resulting in fat malabsorption and steatorrhoea.

«While the results of our retrospective study indicate that there is an increased likelihood of emergency room visits on the days surrounding a full moon, it is difficult to interpret the clinical significance of these findings,» Wells writes.

Practitioners will be familiar with cases where seemingly reduced medical involvement over the weekend has resulted in the significance of deteriorating MEWS scores (clinical observations) being missed.

Notwithstanding the clinical and statistical significance of the observed results, a confirmatory trial with a larger sample size is needed.