Granulomatous lymphadenopathy and tuberculosis: accuracy of histology by Frédéric Méchaï, Lou Macaux, Florence Jeny, Yurdagül Uzunhan, Paul Cioni, Antoine Martin, Nicolas Vignier, Hilario Nunes

“…For the diagnosis of the 86 TB (55 certain and 31 probable), the caseous necrosis variable had a sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of 77%, 94%, 89%, and 86% respectively. …”
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Validade preditiva do movement assessment of infants para crianças pré-termo brasileiras Predictive validity of the Movement Assessment of Infants (MAI) for Brazilian preterm child... by Ana Amélia Cardoso, Lívia C. Magalhães, Regina Helena C. Amorim, Maria Lúcia Paixão, Marisa C. Mancini, Luciana D.F. Rossi

“…The best predictive values were obtained at 8 months, with a cut off > 13 risk points. …”
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Predictive Role of De Ritis Ratio in Biochemical Recurrence After Radical Prostatectomy by Kaan Karamık, Yasin Aktaş, Ali Yıldız, İbrahim Erol, Ekrem İslamoğlu, Mutlu Ateş, Taha Ölçücü, Kayhan Yılmaz, Murat Savaş

“…Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value were 69.7%, 61.1%, 37.6% and 85.7%, respectively. …”
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The prognostic role of vegetation size in pediatric infective endocarditis: a retrospective study using decision curve and dose-response analysis by Yonghan Luo, Xiaotao Yang, Feng Jiao, Yan Guo, Yanchun Wang

“…Abstract Objective To explore the predictive value of vegetation size on the prognosis of pediatric infective endocarditis (IE). …”
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Construction and validation of a machine learning-based nomogram model for predicting pneumonia risk in patients with catatonia: a retrospective observational study by Yi-chao Wang, Qian He, Yue-jing Wu, Li Zhang, Sha Wu, Xiao-jia Fang, Shao-shen Jia, Fu-gang Luo

“…Model performance was evaluated using AUC, Accuracy, Sensitivity, Specificity, Positive Predictive Value, Negative Predictive Value, F1 Score, Cohen’s Kappa, and Brier Score, and Brier score. …”
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Enhancing Candida auris diagnosis: a comprehensive evaluation of VIASURE Candida auris real-time PCR detection kit for rapid diagnostic responses by Blanca Dehesa-García, Henar Alonso, María Paz Peris, Blanca Fortuño, Pilar Abad, Antonio Rezusta, Ana Milagro

“…Accuracy testing resulted in adequate clinical validation values, as presented here: sensitivity, 0.98 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.90 to 1); specificity, 1 (95% CI, 0.99 to 1); positive predictive value, 0.98 (95% CI, 0.90 to 1); and negative predictive value, 1 (95% CI, 0.99 to 1). …”
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Cytologic Evaluation as a Diagnostic Tool to Differentiate Adrenocortical Tumors and Pheochromocytomas by Hunter J. Piegols, Rachel W. Williams, Nirali Pathak, Laura E. Selmic, Giovanni Tremolada, Russell Sakacs, Laurie Millward, Janis Lapsley

“…When all samples were included, FNA and cytologic evaluation had a sensitivity of 77.3%, specificity of 76.5%, positive predictive value of 81.0%, negative predictive value of 72.2%, and accuracy of 76.9% for identifying adrenocortical tumors. …”
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Assessment of Variations in HAPS Scores, CaMK II Expression Levels, and Prognostic Outcomes Among AP Patients with Diverse Disease Severities by Yu L, Zhao H, Cheng Y, Fang Z

“…Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were plotted to analyze the predictive value of HAPS scores and serum CaMK II levels for mild AP and patient prognosis.Results: HAPS scores and serum CaMK II levels were assessed at admission. …”
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Remnant cholesterol, lipid ratios, and the severity of coronary artery lesions: a retrospective cohort study in patients with coronary heart disease by Yu Li, Yumei Zhai, Songli Hu, Jing Liu, Wenchen Zhang, Jianwei Yue, Zichao Wang

“…This could enhance the predictive efficacy based on the lipid ratio model and had better predictive value for moderate to severe coronary artery lesions.…”
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Diagnostic Utility of ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT in Infective Endocarditis by Corina-Ioana Anton, Alice-Elena Munteanu, Mihaela Raluca Mititelu, Militaru Alexandru Ștefan, Cosmin-Alexandru Buzilă, Adrian Streinu-Cercel

“…PET/CT reclassified 13 patients from possible to definite IE, demonstrating an overall sensitivity of 83.3%, specificity of 93.7%, positive predictive value (PPV) of 83.3%, and negative predictive value (NPV) of 93.7%. …”
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The Predictive Factors of CPR Failure After 20 Minutes of Advanced Cardiac Life Support for Non-Traumatic Out-of-Hospital Arrest Cases; a Cross-sectional Study by Thongpitak Huabbangyang, Paskorn Sritipsukho

“…The area under the ROC curve of the model was 0.832 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.793–0.870) with 70.0% sensitivity, 82.4% specificity, 89.8% positive predictive value, 55.5% negative predictive value, 3.97 positive likelihood ratio, and 0.36 negative likelihood ratio. …”
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Evaluation of Neutrophil cluster of differentiation 64 in adult sepsis as a novel diagnostic biomarker by Anuradha Saini, Anjali Sharma, Mukul Singh, Shaily Goyal, Maninder Narang, Sunil Ranga

“…Results: For sepsis prediction, nCD64 demonstrated a positive predictive value (PPV) of 92.68% and a negative predictive value (NPV) of 94.87%. …”
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The Value of Peripheral Blood Leukocyte Parameters in the Early Diagnosis and Clinical Prognosis of Sepsis by Yuandan He, Qianqian Liu, Lianhua Wei, Zhipeng Sun, Wenjuan Li, Fangmin Geng, Zhangping Lu, Hongwei Zhang

“…Cell population data (CPD) has been widely used in many diseases, but its predictive value for early diagnosis and the clinical outcome of sepsis remains unclear. …”
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Expression Significance and Prognostic Value of GPR27 in Ovarian Cancer by Xiulan Peng, Yahong Cai, Bing Tang, Mingtao Zhang, Xia Wang

“…GPR27 demonstrated good predictive value for pathological response in patients with ovarian cancer receiving platinum-based therapy. …”
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Preoperative donor urinary UDP-Glc as an independent risk factor for delayed graft function by Maolin Ma, Fei Han, Qianghua Leng, Xiaorong Chen, Zuofu Tang, Jinhua Zhang, You Luo, Yang Zhang, Zhengyu Huang, Ning Na

“…Furthermore, donor urinary UDP-Glc showed a better predictive value for DGF (AUROC = 0.791, 95% CI: 0.707–0.875, p < 0.001), and combining donor urinary UDP-Glc and donor terminal serum creatinine improved the model predictive value for DGF (AUROC = 0.832, 95% CI: 0.756–0.908, Youden index = 0.56, sensitivity = 0.81, specificity = 0.75, PPV = 0.72, NPV = 0.83, p < 0.001). …”
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Point of Care Ultrasound Accurately Distinguishes Inflammatory from Noninflammatory Disease in Patients Presenting with Abdominal Pain and Diarrhea by Kerri L. Novak, Deepti Jacob, Gilaad G. Kaplan, Emma Boyce, Subrata Ghosh, Irene Ma, Cathy Lu, Stephanie Wilson, Remo Panaccione

“…Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) with 95% confidence intervals (CI), as well as likelihood ratios, were calculated. …”
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A novel scoring system for heart failure screening utilizing combined electrocardiogram, phonocardiogram, and radial artery features by Junjie Bian, Kok-Han Chee, Chengyu Liu, Hongwei Sun, Shixi Zhang, Peili Chen, Dorjee Renchen, Hua-Nong Ting

“…The screening values of this scoring system for heart failure were verified in the testing set, with the odds ratio (OR), area under the curve (AUC), sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) as well as their respective 95% confidence interval (CI) for evaluation. …”
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Comparison of the performance of three classification criteria for Behçet's Disease in a single centre cohort from South India by Vishnu S Chandran, Suma Balan

“…Performance of the ISG, revised ICBD, and PEDBD 2015 was evaluated in terms of sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), negative likelihood ratio (NLR), positive likelihood ratio (PLR), diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), accuracy, and Youden's index (YI). …”
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Application effect of a non-contact sleep monitoring mattress based on body movement characteristics during sleep by ZHANG Yanchun, LIU Yan, WANG Rui

“…The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and Youden index were calculated for the other 4 tools to evaluate and compare their diagnostic effectiveness. …”
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Comparison of Truenat Mycobacterium tuberculosis with line probe assay for the diagnosis of rifampicin resistance and mutation pattern of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Pratik Kumar, Amardeepak Toppo, Roshan Lal, Sagarika Pradhan, Puneet Bhardwaj

“…The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of Truenat MTB compared to LPA were 82.86%, 93.45%, 60.41%, and 97.83%, respectively. …”
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