evaluation of medical laboratory tests

... Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008, 6:98 Introduction Advances in the management of colon cancer over the past decades have resulted in an improvement of the prognosis of the disease The proportion of ... ileocecal junction of 11 patients (11.9%), in ascending colon of 14 patients (15.2%), in transverse colon of subjects (8.7%), in hepatic flexure of patients (8.7%), in splenic flexure of patients (7.6%), ... multivariate analysis (Multivariate analysis of variance MANOVA) was performed with 95% CI for the means of each variable The results of univariate analyses of clinical, laboratory and pathomorphologic data...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... Properties of the soils analysed are listed in Table The results of laboratory tests have different divergences in the various parts of the tests In the majority of cases the value of CCL max ... in CRL tests we can observe a continuous increase of pore water pressure Unification of description of pore water pressure distribution in the course of CL tests is obtained by means of introducing ... the Fig Comparison of different methods of cv estimation in the context of theoretical analysis of the CL consolidation process Evaluation of consolidation parameters in CL tests; theoretical...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2013, 15:01

... implementation, all of them were pursuing their planned actions by January 2000 The RAND Evaluation The evaluation of the asthma practice guideline demonstration consisted of both a process evaluation ... required extraction of data from medical charts, which was beyond the scope of this evaluation 8 Implementation of the Asthma Practice Guideline in AMEDD nearly one-third of the time primary ... clinics Troop medical clinics Blanchfield ACH Moncrief ACH X X X X X X X X The RAND Evaluation RAND’s evaluation of the asthma demonstration consisted of two components: a process evaluation and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... of computer support also varied considerably THE RAND EVALUATION The evaluation of the demonstration by RAND consisted of two components: a process evaluation and an analysis of the effects of ... health facilities Summary xix THE RAND EVALUATION The evaluation of the demonstration consisted of a process evaluation and an analysis of the effects of the guideline on service utilization ... guideline Summary reports of the results of the final round of site visits for the four participating MTFs are presented in Appendix B The purposes of the analysis of the effects of guideline implementation...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 17:20

... Procedure RESULTS OF THE JUDGMENTS OF CLARITY TESTS Sixteen subjects divided into two groups of eight judged the machine translated passages Each group judged one of the sets of four passages ... DISCUSSION OF THE JUDGMENTS OF CLARITY TESTS Distribution of the sentences according to the number of subjects assigning a sentence to a given category The abscissa shows the number of subjects ... to be of some use Summary and Conclusions Evaluation of the quality of machine translations by means of a test of reading comprehension and by judgments of sentence clarity, was investigated Human...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 19:20

... have presented a quantitative analysis of the performance of measurable linguistic tests for the selection of the semantically unmarked term out of a pair of antonymous adjectives The analysis ... differentiation properties of the words (number of different parts of speech) In fact, for these three variables, the hypothesis of random performance cannot be rejected even at the 5% level Tests based on ... -14 Number of homographs 71.09% Total number of compounds < i.I 10 -16 -16 • i0 -s Table 2: Evaluation of simple markedness tests The probability of obtaining by chance performance equal to or...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 06:20

... should investigate the change of health states valuations of health care professionals over the period of their medical training Brooks R: EuroQol: the current state of play Health policy (Amsterdam, ... with valuations of the general population of Germany [12] There were no significant differences between the VAS scores of medical students and the general population for out of 10 health states ... U.S Medical Students Annals of Internal Medicine 2008, 149(5):334-341 Raj SR, Simpson CS, Hopman WM, Singer MA: Health-related quality of life among final-year medical students Canadian Medical...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... medical conditions and mortality [1-3] A number of sleep questionnaires exist that are designed either to measure different aspects of sleep such as quality of sleep, to identify the impact of ... analysis of the psychometric properties was performed on all subjects who completed at least 50% of the items of the MOS-Sleep at the baseline visit (more than 99% of the sample) The analysis of change ... "quantity of sleep" dimension is the average number of hours of sleep per night reported by the patient and the "optimal sleep" is a dichotomized version, that is "yes" when the number of hours of sleep...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... processes and guarantees legibility and comparability of the noted expiries Starting time 11 Figure Evaluation of inter-observer reliability Evaluation of inter-observer reliability – first observer; ... logic in the software operates the changes and saves the event Sophisticated software filters protect the software from false inputs (e.g simultaneous main tasks) The developed software was implemented ... problem of these conventional methods [5] Remembering working events or examples of behaviour during subjective interviews can present problems of bias [6] Equally, the exclusive use of questioning...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... point of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services Furthermore, most of ANC services are provided in health centres or fields as one of outreach activities, where laboratory ... Testing 2002:30-31 Ziyambi Z, Osewe P, Taruberekera N: Evaluation of the performance of non -laboratory staff in the use of simple rapid HIV Page of (page number not for citation purposes) AIDS Research ... writing reports in the laboratory was identified as a cause of these discordant reports Table 1: Comparison of reports of HIV test results between by VCCT counsellors and laboratory technicians...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... for their enthusiastic participation We acknowledge the support of the Office of Controlled Substances and the Office of Cannabis Medical Access, Health Canada The study was funded through a research ... quality of the product [11] The effect of room air on the humidity levels of the product is a factor which may affect the validity of the final results The average ambient humidity at the time of ... in terms of ease of preparation, although all subjects rated products and as easy or very easy to use Products and were rated equally in terms of colour Product was rated best in terms of particle...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... Italian Society of Laboratory Medicine Study Group on the Diagnosis of Autoimmune Diseases: Guidelines for the laboratory use of autoantibody tests in the diagnosis and monitoring of autoimmune ... Comparison of positive and negative findings of patient sera referred to a routine university laboratory Comparison of pattern assessment of patient sera referred to a routine university laboratory ... reproducible evaluation of HEp-2 cell assays Interpretation of immunofluorescence patterns is influenced by the knowledge and individual qualification of the investigator Thus, a high intra- and interlaboratory...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 12:20

... range of possible outpoints While the ROC curve assess the overall performance of the model, the prediction curves in Fig give the magnitude of the probability of death given various levels of the ... assessment of the cardiovascular status Increased levels indicate that excessive amount of fibrin is formed within the vascular system as a result of disseminated intra-vascular coagulation D-dimer is of ... the classification of surgically and medically treated cases To handle collinearity, a correlation analysis of the various explanatory variables was performed for surgically and medically treated...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... This study started with the evaluation of the cytotoxicity profiles of the chalcone analogs in MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 breast carcinoma cells, followed by selection of relatively non-cytotoxic doses ... viability of MCF-7 cells 44 Figure 2.4 Effects of chalcones and ISL on PMA-induced gelatinolytic activity of MMP-9 in MDA-MB-231 cells 46 Figure 2.5 Effects of chalcones and ISL on levels of ... tryptophan pocket of the p53 binding site of MDM2 oncogenes The binding promotes dissociation of the p53/MDM2 complex, leading to disregulation of the cell cycle (Stoll et al., 2001) Induction of apoptosis...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 21:33

... marrow tumor, autoimmune disease, hypersplenism – Consists of total # of WBCs/mm3 of peripheral venous blood – Useful for evaluation of infection, tumor, allergy & immunosuppression Critical Values: ... syndrome – Urea nitrogen is end product of protein metabolism (produced in liver) – BUN is an indirect measure of renal function – BUN is a poor measure of liver function – BUN is usually interpreted ... product of creatine phosphate (from skeletal muscle) – Creatinine is excreted entirely by kidneys → direct measure of renal function – Minimally affected by liver function – Elevation of creatinine...

Ngày tải lên: 09/06/2016, 22:43

... prevalence of unrecognized disease that influences surgical risk is low in healthy individuals Nevertheless, clinicians often perform laboratory tests in this group of patients out of habit and ... abnormal tests in the immediate preoperative period of 24 29/07/2016, 21:01 Preoperative medical evaluation of the adult healthy patient http://www.uptodate.com.eproxy1.lib.hku.hk/contents/preoper Laboratory ... de l 'Evaluation Medicale (ANDEM) Indication of Preoperative Tests Paris: ANDEM, 1992 81 Guidelines and Protocols Advisory Committee (GPAC), Medical Services Commission, and British Columbia Medical...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2016, 17:14

... problem of different numbers of intuitionistic linguistic labels in the features of patients, the characteristics of symptoms and the diseases in subsection 3.1 An illustrated example of MMC-IFRS ... 1604 L.H Son and P.H Phong / On the performance evaluation of IVSMs for medical diagnosis or SIMQ (U, V ) ≥ SIMQ (U, T ) The remainders of proof are analogous K ≥ = 1K y2 x2 = 1K x y , =1 Definition ... function of MC-IFRS defined in Equations (3–4) of Definitions & 4, respectively Thus, we clearly recognize that IFSD is a special case of L.H Son and P.H Phong / On the performance evaluation of IVSMs...

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2017, 09:26

... involved in emergency medical situations have of a large variety of medical problems, where the majority of the patients have a non life-threatening situation The large variation of medical symptoms ... incidence of 27 medical emergencies per 000 inhabitants per year [7] However, the definition of an emergency was wider in this study than the classification of a red response based on the Index of Medical ... patient either with no symptoms/injuries or in no need of medical treatment, NACA 2-3, indicating need of medical help where value indicates need of hospitalisation, but still not a life-threatening...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 09:56

... preventable [11] Thus, all three studies of MET calls as a means of detecting problems with the quality of care have found that approximately one quarter to one third of MET activations involve safety ... proportion of MET calls which reflects deficiencies in care may be even higher The present study introduced the novel element of real-time characterization of events by the team at the moment of consultation ... without requiring substantial investments of additional resources Moreover, the direct involvement of clinicians in the detection of patient safety and quality -of- care problems likely facilitates the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... trial of a medical emergency team Med J Aust 2003, 179:283-287 Buist MD, Moore GE, Bernard SA, Waxman BP, Anderson JN, Nguyen TV: Effects of a medical emergency team on reduction of incidence of ... assess the implementation of METs in two countries and the timing of such Figure tus is of Medical Emergency Team (MET) services into various categoriesknown Uptakeof hospitals in Australia and ... arrest', and 'rapid response team' The date of these publications was then related to the timing of commencement of MET services Assessment of the effect of MET service commencement on adverse events...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35