Sentences with phrase «diagnostic accuracy»

The authors concluded that future studies should evaluate targeted interventions to improve patient safety in areas associated with catastrophic malpractice payouts, including efforts to improve diagnostic accuracy.

Ideally, a size - specific protocol is defined based on diagnostic accuracy for a particular procedure, and a targeted balance is calculated between image accuracy requirements and patient dose.

The authors noted that errors in diagnosis have twice the odds for a catastrophic payout and that health systems should focus more attention on ensuring diagnostic accuracy.

CMR is accepted as a method with high diagnostic accuracy.

Psychiatric disorders are 3 - 5 times more common in people with intellectual disability (ID), but are often overlooked because of communication difficulties and problems with diagnostic accuracy.

«We hope that our new molecular classification method will help improve diagnostic accuracy in CNS tumors and, thus, also improve the chances for successful treatment,» said von Deimling.

The overall diagnostic accuracy was 86 %.

Diagnostic accuracy well above 90 percent is possible, he says.

A diagnostic model will be developed based on all identified autoantibodies and their activities for more diagnostic accuracy for glaucoma.

Digital X Ray machine improving diagnostic accuracy giving us the ability to focus on specific areas, and measurements.

For example, when radiologists were shown a picture of a patient alongside an x-ray, diagnostic accuracy went up by 43 percent, says Grant.

Knopp S, Salim N, Schindler T, Karagiannis Voules DA, Rothen J, Lweno O, Mohammed AS, Singo R, Benninghoff M, Nsojo AA, Genton B, Daubenberger C. Diagnostic Accuracy of Kato - Katz, FLOTAC, Baermann, and PCR Methods for the Detection of Light - Intensity Hookworm and Strongyloides stercoralis Infections in Tanzania.

This article by Hsu et al from the NIH shows promising diagnostic accuracy for a new fully automatic, pixel-wise, quantitative stress perfusion by CMR: Diagnostic Performance of Fully Automated Pixel-Wise Quantitative Myocardial Perfusion Imaging by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.

Prospective Diagnostic Accuracy Evaluation and Clinical Utilization of a Modified Assay for Platelet Associated Immunoglobulin in Thrombocytopenic and Non-Thrombocytopenic Dogs.

OPTIGEN provides the highest diagnostic accuracy available, minimum turn - around time for report and interpretation, and full confidentiality.

One drawback of the ATT is that it is a labile test which requires immediate assay samples for diagnostic accuracy which is not feasible in all veterinary practices.

ROC analyses showed adequate diagnostic accuracy of the CPRS - R and the PSDQ in predicting ODD in this ADHD sample.

Receiver Operating Characteristic analysis indicated that the DERS limited access to emotion regulation strategies subscale score has moderate diagnostic accuracy in detecting the presence of NSSI.

The combination of longitudinal biomarkers improves diagnostic accuracy compared with use of a single marker and provides a powerful tool in personalized medicine.

Stress perfusion CMR is accepted as a method with high diagnostic accuracy.

The computing system's overall diagnostic accuracy (91,8 %) was significantly higher than that of the most senior member of the clinical team to see each case (79,6 %).

Patients will benefit from reduced radiation exposure and higher quality images to ensure diagnostic accuracy.»

Our hope is that the higher resolution will help to improve diagnostic accuracy in general.»

Brand New Digital X Ray machine improving diagnostic accuracy giving us the ability to focus on specific areas, and measurements.

Studies by the Burchard group and others have found that using genetic ancestry rather than ethnic self - identification significantly improves diagnostic accuracy for certain diseases.

Radiologists evaluating CT scans increased their diagnostic accuracy 46 percent when the CT scans included facial photos of the patients.

That study used the Human Dx service as a neutral platform to compare the diagnostic accuracy of human physicians with third - party «symptom checker» Web sites and apps used by patients for self - diagnosis.

Actionable gene mutations are defined by having a reported correlation with treatment outcome, a molecular association with a particular targeted therapy, or increasing pathologic - diagnostic accuracy.

In deciding the best imaging method to use, the clinician should also consider the test's diagnostic accuracy, potential risks, availability, cost, and convenience.

Richard Body, Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Manchester Royal Infirmary, assessed the diagnostic accuracy of emergency doctors» clinical judgement for acute coronary syndromes — both alone and in combination with the tests available on arrival — ECG and a blood test which detects a protein called troponin.

Further investigation of these and other factors of neurodegeneration in living dementia patients could one day help clinicians improve diagnostic accuracy and lead to disease - modifying therapies for Alzheimer's, including new drugs that could potentially target tau in order to slow or stop degenerative effects in the brain.

The editorial highlights that nowadays, more than 20 medical specialties include use of point - of - care ultrasound as a core skill, and that mounting evidence suggests that compared with the stethoscope ultrasound technology can reduce complications, assist in emergency procedures and improve diagnostic accuracy.

Dr. Poonai's study suggests that POCUS may be a viable alternative to x-ray with respect to diagnostic accuracy, cost effectiveness, pain, caregiver satisfaction, and procedure duration.

Paulsen's study investigated whether the addition of molecular imaging (NIRST) at the time of MRI would improve the diagnostic accuracy of breast MRI alone by contributing functional information about regions of suspicion in the breast identified by the MRI and helping to categorize the regions as malignant or benign.

The two methods had similar levels of sensitivity, specificity and diagnostic accuracy.

The smartphone app had a diagnostic accuracy of 94 % compared with 84 % using the traditional method.

Combining cervical length with the biomarker test was found to improve the diagnostic accuracy further.

For this reason, probabilistic frameworks have been used to improve diagnostic accuracy (Schwartz et al, 1981); however, these frameworks also rely on choices grounded in reductionism and, thus, suffer from the limitations of a reductionist approach.

Dr. Navaneethan and his colleagues confirmed the diagnostic accuracy of biliary VEGF in a second independent validation cohort and further confirmed the concordance of expression of VEGF in a resected pancreatic cancer with elevated VEGF in bile in a patient with pancreatic cancer.

By using classifiers constructed from 5 to 15 metabolites, natural biological variation is more readily accommodated and diagnostic accuracy is more robust.

This procedure may offer patients at increased risk of colorectal cancer an alternative to colonoscopy that is less - invasive, better - tolerated, and with good diagnostic accuracy.