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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"prognostic accuracy"”.
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Biomarker-And Pathway-Informed Polygenic Risk Scores for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
… biomarker discovery and increased prognostic accuracy. A systematic review demonstrated that methodological refinement of PRS is an active research area, mostly focused on large case-control genome-wide association studies (GWAS). In AD, where there is considerable phenotypic and …
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Approaches to developing clinically useful Bayesian risk prediction models
… prediction models have improved diagnostic and prognostic accuracy, in some cases surpassing the performance of clinicians. However, evidence is lacking that deployment of these models has improved care and patient outcomes. That is, their clinical usefulness is debatable. One barrier to …
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Survival of South-African HIV infected patients
… results in scarce availability of HIV prognostic tools such as CD4+ T-Lymphocyte (CD4) count and HIV viral load. To facilitate counselling and clinical decisions in this setting, widely available and inexpensive markers of prognosis are required. Chapter one gives an overview of the …
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Study of prognostic markers in advanced cancer
BACKGROUND: Prognostication is a core skill fundamental to the clinical management of patients with advanced cancer. This skill is exercised to guide appropriate clinical decisions, plan supportive services and allocate resource utilisation. Prognostication by clinicians is often erroneous, …
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CARDIOVASCULAR CONSEQUENCES AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY AND THE EFFECTS OF ELECTRICAL STIMULATION
… area under the curve (AUC) to explore the prognostic accuracy of the FRS in being able to predict CVD events in people with SCI. The ROC-AUC suggests acceptable accuracy of the FRS in identifying individuals with increased risk for CVD events (ROC-AUC of 0.71, 95% CI 0.62-0.82). Finally, …