Clinical Utility of Next-Generation Sequencing-Based Molecular Panel in Thyroid Nodules by Hetashvi Gondaliya, Suruchi Aggarwal, Kranti Khadilkar, Shivaprasad S. Kumbenahalli, Basavaraj Sooragonda, Anirudh J. Shetty, Vijay Pillai, Vidhya Bhushan, Vivek Shetty, Yogesh Dokhe, Akhila Lakshmikantha, Subramanian Kannan

“…Post-surgical outcomes showed an overall sensitivity of 86% and a specificity of 74%, with a negative predictive value of 94%. Among the mutation-negative group, only one patient had a malignancy, and the rest were benign showing a high negative predictive value of the NGS-based testing. …”
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Evaluation of a Candida Antigen Detection Method (Cand-Tec): Experience from a University Teaching Hospital by Todd J Anderson, Heather E Bryant, Deirdre L Church

“…If a titre of ≥1:4 was used as the diagnostic cut-off level for definite candidal infection, overall sensitivity and specificity were 77% and 69%, respectively, while the positive predictive value was 48%, and the negative predictive value 89%. …”
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Preoperative PET/CT score can predict incomplete resection after debulking surgery for advanced serous ovarian cancer better than CT score, MTV, tumor markers and hematological mar... by Jie Wang, Li Liu, Hua Pang, Lili Liu, Xingguo Jing, Yongmei Li

“…The preoperative PET/CT score had an identical predictive value in primary and secondary debulking surgery groups. …”
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Portable lactate analyzer for measuring lactate in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma ? method-comparison evaluations by Sérgio Monteiro de Almeida, Jennifer Marquie-Beck, Archana Bhatt, Scott Letendre, Allen McCutchan, Ron Ellis

“…For CSF the specificity was 0.95; the sensitivity 0.33; the negative predictive value was 95% and the positive predictive value 33%. …”
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Evaluation of Salivary Antibodies to Detect Infection with Helicobacter pylori by Mark B Loeb, Robert H Riddell, Cindy James, Richard Hunt, Fiona M Smaill

“…When the analysis was redone, excluding those treated with eradication therapy, the results were similar (sensitivity 86%, specificity 58%). The positive predictive value of the assay was 45% and the negative predictive value was 90%. …”
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Obstetric-specific compared to general early warning system for predicting severe postpartum maternal morbidity by Neža Pezdirc, Tatjana Stopar Pintarič, Miha Lučovnik

“…The sensitivity of the MEOWS was 92%, specificity 62%, positive predictive value 8%, and negative predictive value 100%. …”
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Diagnostic performance of the extended focused assessment with sonography for trauma (EFAST) patients in a tertiary care hospital of Nepal by Samjhana Basnet, Sanu Krishna Shrestha, Alok Pradhan, Roshana Shrestha, Anmol Purna Shrestha, Grishma Sharma, Sahil Bade, Latika Giri

“…The sensitivity and specificity were 94.8% and 99.5%, respectively. The negative predictive value was 98.53% whereas the positive predictive value was 98.21%. …”
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Qualitative elastography by endoscopic ultrasound in the restaging of the irradiated rectal tumor by Misdrialis Martinez Romero, Raúl Antonio Brizuela Quintanilla, Norberto Alfonso Contino, Pablo Miguel Raventós Vaquer, Jorge Luis Garcia-Menocal Hernández, Ana Mercedes Mendoza Romero

“…To determine the usefulness of elastography, the following were calculated: sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, Youden index and diagnostic agreement according to kappa, elastography and endoscopic ultrasound separately; these results were compared in both diagnostic tests. …”
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Evaluating the diagnostic efficiency of ultrasound and serum autoantibodies in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis: a cross-sectional study by Hai-Long Tan, Huan Ge, Zi-En Qin, Ya-Ling Jiang, Shi Chang, Neng Tang

“…While both autoantibodies and ultrasound demonstrate high specificity and negative predictive value, their low independent sensitivity and positive predictive value limit reliability. …”
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Use of endoanal ultrasound in detecting obstetric anal sphincter injury immediately after birth by Malin Huber, Charlotta Larsson, Mathilda Harrysson, Karin Strigård, Jan‐P. Lehmann, Pär Nordin, Katarina Tunón

“…The sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value, and positive predictive value of 3D‐EAUS in the diagnosis of OASI was evaluated. …”
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Utility of reporting urine cytology samples as per the Paris system by Ramesh Dhakhwa, Ozone Shrestha, Ram Thapa, Sailesh Pradhan

“…Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value were calculated for the high-grade and low-grade urothelial lesion. …”
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Application of transesophageal echocardiography for hemodialysis tunneled cuffed catheter dysfunction by Yun-ruo Wang, You Wu, Du-juan Xu, Ru Liu, Su Niu

“…With DSA as a gold standard, sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of TEE results were analyzed. …”
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Prognostic Value of Protein S100B in Traumatic Brain Injury by Marwa Elsayed Abdelfattah, Mohamed Nafie, Khaled Abdelwahab, Abdelraouf Fahmy

“…There is a statistically significant relation between S100B at days 3 and 7, and survival (P < .001) with cutoff value to predict mortality at day 3 was >0.7 µg/L (sensitivity 100%, specificity 89.5%, positive predictive value 84.6, and negative predictive value 100, area under the ROC curve 0.967, and P < .0001). and cutoff value at day 7 was >0.3 µg/L (sensitivity 100%, specificity 100%, positive predictive value 100, negative predictive value 100, area under the ROC curve 1.000, and P < .0001). …”
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Convolutional Neural Networks Accurately Diagnose Lisfranc Injuries on Weightbearing and Nonweightbearing Radiographs by Alexander B. Sawatzke MD, Monty Khela BS, David Ellis MS, John Windle MD, Thomas Windle BS, Dongming Peng PhD, Jihyun Ma MS, Neil Antonson MD

“…Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, accuracy, F score, and area under the curve (AUC) were calculated for each model and compared between weightbearing and nonweightbearing films. …”
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Value of Ultrasound in Children with Urinary Tract Infection and Vesicouretric Reflux by Hayder Kadhum Hussein

“…Statistical analysis used include sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value. Results: A total of 80 patients (20 days-5 years) (median age 18 months), 42 (52% were female), 38 (48% were males). …”
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MACHINE LEARNING-BASED CLASSIFICATION OF HBV AND HCV-RELATED HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA USING GENOMIC BIOMARKERS by Sami Akbulut, Zeynep Küçükakçalı, Cemil Çolak

“…Accuracy, balanced accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, the positive predictive value, the negative predictive value, and F1 score performance metrics were evaluated for a model performance. …”
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The validity of clinical examination in screening of developmental dysplasia of the hip among infants aged less than six months by Dalal Ihsan Alswari, Selwa Elias Yacoub, Rajab Hassan Sanaan

“…Galeazzi test reported to have the lowest sensitivity (8.47%), with both specificity and positive predictive value of 100%, and negative predictive value of 43.15%. …”
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Role of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in the Evaluation of Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgeries in the Contemporary Era by Tanu Chaudhary, Manish Bansal, Ravi R. Kasliwal

“…A Lee’s score value >3 had a sensitivity of 68.4% (95% confidence interval [CI] - 43.5–87.4), specificity of 97.6% (95% CI - 96.6–98.4), positive predictive value of 30.2% (95% CI - 21.4–40.9), and negative predictive value of 99.5% (95% CI - 99.1–99.8) for predicting abnormal DSE. …”
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Diagnostic accuracy of combined pleural fluid adenosine deaminase and lymphocyte-to-neutrophil ratio versus CBNAAT/TrueNat in suspected tubercular pleural effusion patients by Indraneel Bose, Jaydip Deb, Shilpi Adhikary, Dibyendu Saha

“…In low-prevalence areas, ADA retains a high negative predictive value (NPV) but its positive predictive value declines. …”
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Feasibility analysis of the SICKLECHECK™ test kit for rapid screening of sickle cell disease at a County Referral Hospital in Kenya by Antony S. Katayi, Phidelis M. Marabi, Stanslaus K. Musyoki

“…Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and overall accuracy were calculated using MedCalc™ statistical software. …”
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