Imaging and the Value of the Pediatric Appendicitis Score for Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis in the Pediatric Emergency Department by Tuğçe NALBANT, Gamze GÖKALP, Yüksel BİCİLİOĞLU, Emine Burcu ÇIĞŞAR KUZU, Esin ERGÖNÜL

“…Results: The positive predictive value and negative predictive value of US in the diagnosis of appendicitis were found to be 60% and 87%, respectively, while CT showed higher accuracy rates with 86% sensitivity and 97% specificity. …”
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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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Studying some lymphocyte subpopulations in search for predictors of renal graft dysfunction by S. V. Zybleva, S. L. Zyblev, V. N. Martinkov

“…This scoring system has the sensitivity of 91.9%, еру specificity of 100%, еру accuracy of 94.9%, positive predictive value of 1 and negative predictive value of 0.877. …”
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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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Predictive biomarkers in the gut microbiome and metabolome for severe acute radiation enteritis in cervical cancer radiotherapy by Chen-ying Ma, Jing Zhao, Xiao-ting Xu, Xiao-lan He, Song-bing Qin, Ju-ying Zhou

“…This study aimed to identify gut microbiomics- and metabolomics-based signatures, and assess their predictive value for SARE. Methods Samples from 50 cervical cancer patients receiving volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) were collected for gut microbiota and metabolomic profiling. 16 S rDNA amplicon sequencing analyzed gut microbiota, and nontargeted liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry determined metabolomic profiles. …”
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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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Perfluorobutane CEUS for early-stage cervical lymphoma: diagnostic value of the postvascular phase starfield sign by Xia Liang, Xian-Tao Zeng, Zhi-Liang Hong, Xiao-Ying Lin, Miao-jiao Su, Jian-Chuan Yang, Song-Song Wu

“…The sensitivity of the postvascular phase starfield sign was 91.30%, specificity was 83.33%, positive predictive value was 84.00%, negative predictive value was 90.91%, and the AUC was 0.87 (95% CI 0.76–0.98). …”
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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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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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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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Age-Adjusted Cut-Off Values for Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein and Ubiquitin Carboxy-Terminal Hydrolase L1 Improve the Diagnostic Accuracy of the Abbott Mild Traumatic Brain Injur... by Ivana Lapić, Dunja Rogić, Matea Bingula, Lea Miklić, Ivan Gornik

“…<b>Results</b>: Using manufacturer’s defined cut-offs (GFAP < 35 ng/L, UCH-L1 < 400 ng/L), the mTBI assay exhibited diagnostic sensitivity (Se) of 93.1%, specificity (Sp) of 28.8%, negative predictive value (NPV) of 95.5% and a positive predictive value (PPV) of 20.6%. …”
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Mortality predictors on the day of healthcare-associated Acinetobacter baumanni bacteremia in intensive care unit by Murat Emre Tokur, Pervin Korkmaz, Sevil Alkan, Emel Yıldız, Özlem Arık, Duygu Perçin Renders, Canan Balcı

“…When CRP and RDW were both positive, sensitivity was 72%, specificity was 100%, negative predictive value was 33%, and positive predictive value was 100% for the 28-day mortality after BD. …”
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Squamous cell carcinoma antigen levels in women with cervical cancer and those without cervical cancer: a cross-sectional study among women of African descent by Maradona Isikhuemen, Michael Ezeanochie, Chukwunwendu Okonkwo, Friday Okonofua

“…Using a cut-off value of 0.45, the sensitivity of SCCA was 75% while specificity was 70%. Its positive predictive value was71.4% while the negative predictive value was 73.7%. …”
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Development and validation of an administrative data algorithm to identify adults who have endoscopic sinus surgery for chronic rhinosinusitis by Kristian I. Macdonald, Shaun J. Kilty, Carl van Walraven

“…Compared to the reference standard, the algorithm was very accurate: sensitivity 96.0% (95%CI 93.2–97.7), specificity 100% (95% CI 99.9–100), and positive predictive value 95.4% (95%CI 92.5–97.3). Internal validation using chart review for the following year revealed similar accuracy: sensitivity 98.9% (95%CI 95.8–99.8), specificity 97.1% (95%CI 93.4–98.8), and positive predictive value 96.9% (95%CI 93.0–99.8). …”
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The assessment of incidental thyroid lesions on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomogrophy: A single centre experience by Efnan Algin, Aytug Uner, Umit Ozgur Akdemir, Ozge Gumusay, Ozlem Kapucu, Ahmet Ozet

“…The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value were 87.4%, 81.7%, 70.1% and 93% respectively. …”
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Predicting the occurrence of liver injury induced by immune checkpoint inhibitors in hepatocellular carcinoma patients: a retrospective analysis by Xiaoyan Li, Hang Sun, Jialiang Wang, Lubiao Chen

“…A model was established to predict ILICI occurrence with the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve 0.701, sensitivity 0.712, specificity 0.632, positive predictive value 0.720 and negative predictive value 0.630. …”
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