Upper socioeconomic status is associated with lower Helicobacter pylori infection rate among patients undergoing gastroscopy by Tan Attila, Mujdat Zeybel, Yesim Esen Yigit, Bulent Baran, Emel Ahishali, Emrah Alper, Fatih Aslan, Onder Ergonul, Zeynel Mungan

“…The specificity, sensitivity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and diagnostic accuracy of rapid urease test were 87.5%, 99.7%, 99%, 96.5%, and 96.9% respectively. …”
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Evaluation of diagnostic methods for detection of trichomoniasis in symptomatic women with vaginal discharge by Gargee Mishra, Kavita Gupta, Srujana Mohanty, Subarna Mitra, Arvind Kumar Singh

“…Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) for wet mount and Giemsa stain were 100% for each parameter compared to culture; while sensitivity and specificity were calculated as 100% and 98.2% for PCR. …”
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Inflammatory markers including NLR, AFR and SII as prognostic factors in neuroblastoma by Chenglong Zhang, Xiaoyu Wang, Yu Tian, Huizhong Niu, Pengju Zhang, Jianlei Geng

“…NLR and SII had high predictive value for mortality, with ROC AUCs of 0.90 and 0.89, respectively. …”
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Postpericardiotomy syndrome: the role of genetic factors in the pathogenesis of a systemic inflammatory response after open-heart surgery by E. V. Nakatseva, A. L. Runov, M. S. Vonsky

“…Aim. To assess the predictive value of polymorphic variants analyzing of interleukin-6  (IL-6)  gene  in patients  with postpericardiotomy  syndrome  (PPS) during open-heart surgery.Material and methods. …”
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Pre-training heart rate variability as a predictor of Air Force Academy completion. by Yosef Kula, Roy Horosov, Yori Gidron, Aya Ekshtein, Barak Gordon, Zev Iversen, Omer Tehori, Oded Ben-Ari

“…The vagal nerve is a crucial moderator of stress responses, and its activity (indexed by heart rate variability, HRV) reflects psycho-physiological resilience and has been shown to predict performance in various settings. However, its predictive value in pilot training has not been examined. …”
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The Role of Genedrive in Point of Care Method For Hepatitis C Elimination in Hemodialysis Center by Andri Sanityoso Sulaiman, Nuri Dyah Indrasari, Ni Made Hustrini, Desti Rachmani

“…Genedrive HCV assay showed 90.6% sensitivity, 96.8% specificity, 92% negative predictive value, and 97% positive predictive value to detect HCV, 10.36 positive likelihood ratio, and 0.09 negative likelihood ratio. …”
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Automated Identification of Stroke Thrombolysis Contraindications from Synthetic Clinical Notes: A Proof-of-Concept Study by Bing Yu Chen, Fares Antaki, Marco Gonzalez, Ken Uchino, Samer Albahra, Scott Robertson, Sidonie Ibrikji, Eric Aube, Andrew Russman, Muhammad Shazam Hussain

“…Performance was evaluated using sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), accuracy, and F1 score. …”
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Complete blood counts parameters and neonatal sepsis by Shiva Raj K.C., Purnima Gyawali, Ajaya Kumar Dhakal, Geetika K C, Devendra Shrestha

“…Both MPV and PDW had low positive predictive values (33.3%) but a high negative predictive value (95.2%). …”
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Results of Automated Retinal Image Analysis for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy from the Nakuru Study, Kenya. by Morten B Hansen, Michael D Abràmoff, James C Folk, Wanjiku Mathenge, Andrew Bastawrous, Tunde Peto

“…<h4>Main outcome measures</h4>The primary outcomes were sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive value of IDP versus the human grader as reference standard.…”
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Performance of Microsoft Copilot in the Diagnostic Process of Pulmonary Embolism by Banu Arslan, Mehmet Necmeddin Sutasir, Ertugrul Altinbilek

“…Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value for discriminating between the combination of low- and intermediate- vs high-risk categories were 34%, 97.1%, 92.3%, and 59.6%, respectively. …”
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Role of urine reagent strips in early diagnosis of meningitis by Preeti Singh, Vijay Kumar Jaiswal, Neha Singh, Anamika Singh Thakur

“…Diagnostic performance was assessed using sensitivity, specificity, Positive Predictive Value (PPV), Negative Predictive Value (NPV), and accuracy. …”
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Detection of obvious death by clinically trained emergency medical dispatchers in a criteria-based dispatch system by Loïc Jaspard, Nicolas Beysard, Fabrice Dami

“…Of the 93 cases judged by dispatchers to be obvious deaths, 80 were confirmed (positive predictive value: 86.0%). Among the 949 patients in whom dispatchers did not suspect obvious death, 694 were resuscitated or not in cardiac arrest (negative predictive value: 73.1%). …”
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Correlation between serum Visfatin and cognitive impairment in maintenance hemodialysis patients by Wang Xiao-qi, Liu Cong-hui, Ma Ye-ping, Cao Qian-ying, Shao Feng, Li Zhong-xin

“…Receiver operating characteristic （ROC） curve was used to analyze the predictive value of influencing factors for CI in MHD patients.ResultsTotally 146 MHD patients were enrolled in this study and divided into non-CI group （<italic>n</italic>=46） and CI group （<italic>n</italic>=100）. …”
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Evaluating cell-free DNA integrity index as a non-invasive biomarker for neoadjuvant chemotherapy in colorectal cancer patients by Takuma Iwai, Takeshi Yamada, Kay Uehara, Seiichi Shinji, Akihisa Matsuda, Yasuyuki Yokoyama, Goro Takahashi, Toshimitsu Miyasaka, Shintaro Kanaka, Michihiro Koizumi, Hiroshi Yoshida

“…We aimed to investigate the predictive value of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) integrity index for NAC response, using machine learning to compensate for the small cohort size. …”
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Surgical Theater, a Novel Technology, Enhances 3-dimensional Mapping for Robotic-assisted Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Free Flap by Suphalerk Lohasammakul, MD, Mandy Flor, MD, Clarissa Hoye, Kongkrit Chaiyasate, MD, FACS, Jesse C. Selber, MD, MPH, MHCM, FACS

“…Receiver operating characteristics metrics include sensitivity of 95%, specificity of 93%, positive predictive value of 91%, and negative predictive value of 96%. …”
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Validation of a software application using electronic health records for automatic detection of community onset sepsis by Cristian Duré, Sandra Jonmarker, Eva Joelsson-Alm, Hampus Nordqvist, Katarina Bohm, Liivi Rimling, Mikael Andersson Franko, Maria Cronhjort, Kristian Ängeby

“…Validation using physician record review of a random selection of 426 cases demonstrated a sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of 95%, 99%, 92%, and 99%, respectively. …”
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The HALP Index Is Associated with the Recurrence of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Following Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation by Wang Z, Qu Y, Wang H, Wang C

“…Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were generated to evaluate the predictive value of the HALP Index for recurrence in patients with persistent AF undergoing RFCA.Results: After a mean follow-up of 43.6 months, recurrence occurred in 130 patients (27.6%). …”
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Emergency Surgery Mortality (ESM) Score to Predict Mortality and Improve Patient Care in Emergency Surgery by Sirirat Tribuddharat, Thepakorn Sathitkarnmanee, Pavit Sappayanon

“…The respective sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio, negative likelihood ratio, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and accuracy for an ESM score ≥4 predictive of postoperative mortality was 70.2%, 94.9%, 13.8, 0.3, 69.4%, 95.1%, and 91.4%. …”
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Peri-bronchovascular lesions in chest CT are not necessarily infective: multidisciplinary approach for other differential diagnosis with validation analysis by Ahmed Samir, Omnia Ezz Eldin, Ayman Ibrahim Baess, Dina Altarawy

“…It was proved to be valid by reaching 92–100% sensitivity, 84–99% specificity, 84–98% positive predictive value (PPV), 93–100% negative predictive value (NPV), and 91–99% accuracy. …”
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Machine learning algorithm to predict in-hospital mortality after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage by Juri V. Kivelev, Alexey L. Krivoshapkin, Albert A. Sufianov

“…The values and 95% confi dence intervals (CI) of AUROC and AURPC, predictive value, specifi city and sensitivity were calculated.Results. …”
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