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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"diagnostic strategy"”.
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Clinical probability assessment and biochemical markers in the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis
… and D-dimer test is now widely applied in the diagnostic process of DVT. The general objective of the present investigation was to validate these results in a Swedish routine emergency setting were the prevalence of the disease is high and were the clinical probability assessment was handled by …
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One Health-One City; the extent of Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli in Cape Town
… This thesis provides information on STEC diagnostic strategy, undetected STEC in a tertiary referral hospital in Cape Town, and the virulence and antimicrobial resistance properties of tellurite resistant diarrheic E. coli isolated on CHROMagar(TM)STEC (CHROMagar Microbiology, Paris, …
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Ambulatory diagnosis of endometrial pathology
The aim of this thesis was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of outpatient endometrial evaluation using endometrial biopsy (EB), ultrasound scan (USS) and hysteroscopy (OPH) by conducting systematic quantitative reviews of the published literature. The optimum diagnostic strategy in terms of …
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Polymer Micro- and Nanofluidic Systems for In Vitro Diagnostics: Analyzing Single Cells and Molecules
… outperform conventional analysis techniques and diagnostic methods by enhancing speed, accuracy, sensitivity and specificity. In this work, applications of microfluidics have been demonstrated to address the existing challenges in stroke diagnosis, by mRNA expression profiling from whole blood …
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Early Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism: Review and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
… impact between 1,5 and 5 billion. Approaches to strategy selection by physicians and other health-care specialists are based mainly upon cost, technology availability, and cultural tolerance regarding radiation exposure. The purpose of this study was to determine the most cost-effective …
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A Novel accelerated diagnostic protocol to identify emergency department patients with chest pain who may be suitable for discharge after a single high-sensitivity troponin TRUST:Triage Rule-out Using high-sensitivity Troponin Chest Pain Study.
… of medical admissions in the United Kingdom. A diagnostic strategy that prevents unnecessary hospital admission in a large proportion of this patient group would have significant benefits for healthcare services by reducing hospital admission rates, ED overcrowding, duplication of staff time and …
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Development of an efficient test for autoimmune disease using gold nanoparticles
… as specific biomarkers for developing reliable diagnostic tests. Over the years, different approaches like the use of mucosal biopsy, genetic typing of the disease associated gene, gliadin induced cytokines, antibodies and auto-antibodies have been used to develop diagnostic tests for coeliac …
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Component-wise Z-residual Diagnosis for Bayesian Hurdle Models
… In Bayesian analysis, however, residual diagnostics have been less common. A recent development is the use of Z-residuals, which are especially useful because they are approximately standard normal when the model is correctly specified. While Z-residuals have shown effectiveness in …
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Newer and novel sputum versus non-sputum-based tools for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis in different patient sub-populations
… generate a number of sub-populations. Current diagnostic tools are not a ‘one size fits all' and have important differential limitations in these patient sub-populations including those with pauci-bacillary disease (e.g., in HIV-infected patients, minimally symptomatic patients with low burden …
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Management der tiefen Beinvenenthrombose
Einleitung: Die Diagnostik und Therapie der tiefen Beinvenenthrombose (tVT) hat sich in den letzten Jahren durch Labortests wie D-Dimere, bildgebende Verfahren wie die Duplexsonographie und den Einsatz niedermolekularer Heparine stark gewandelt, sodass eine ambulante Therapie zum Standard …