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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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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Clinical utility of SPECT neuroimaging in the diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury: a systematic review. by Cyrus A Raji, Robert Tarzwell, Dan Pavel, Howard Schneider, Michael Uszler, John Thornton, Muriel van Lierop, Phil Cohen, Daniel G Amen, Theodore Henderson

“…Three longitudinal studies examined diagnostic predictive value. The first showed positive predictive value increases from initial SPECT scan shortly after trauma to one year follow up scans, from 59% to 95%. …”
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Diagnostic value of preoperative advanced doppler imaging with cervical maneuvers in the detection of central cervical lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma by Hosein Chegeni, Vahid Khani, Jalal Kargar, Abbas Alibakhshi, Khosro Shamsi, Hojat Ebrahiminik, Reza Gerami

“…The preoperative sensitivity without advanced Doppler imaging and maneuvers was 35.3%, specificity – 96.5%, positive predictive value – 88.2%, and negative predictive value – 66.9%. …”
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CURRENT APPROACHES TO EVALUATION OF THE MULTIVESSEL CORONARY ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE by D. N. Perutsky, I. B. Kovalenko, S. L. Konstantinov, T. I. Makeeva, M. V. Filatov

“…Method of stress echocardiography as compared with FFR shown sensitivity — 58%, specificity — 95%, positive predictive value — 87%, positive predictive value of a negative result — 17%. …”
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The value of transesophageal echocardiography in the assessment of complications associated with hemodialysis tunneled cuffed catheters in the superior vena cava by Yun-Ruo Wang, You Wu, Du-Juan Xu, Ru Liu, Su Niu, Hao Wu

“…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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Diagnostic work-up in periprosthetic joint infections of the knee: can the albumin-to-globulin ratio be a screening tool? by Domenico De Mauro, Tiziana Ascione, Enrico Festa, Lucrezia Marasco, Filippo Leggieri, Sara Rosito, Matteo Innocenti, Edoardo Di Pace, Giovanni Balato

“…AGR registered a sensitivity of 95% (95% CI 91–197%), a specificity of 63% (95% CI 56–69%), a positive predictive value of 75% (95% CI 69–81%), and a negative predictive value of 91% (95% CI 86–94%). …”
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Comparison of cervical cancer screening by visual inspection with acetic acid versus cervical-cytology in pregnancy by Saritha Shamsunder, Deepika Pannu, Geetika Khanna, Ananya Banerjee, Vijay Zutshi, Sunita Malik

“…VIA positivity was found in 8.4% (n = 31). The positive predictive value was 31.8% for cervical cytology and 48.4% for VIA (P = 0.001). …”
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The Role of TB-LAMP Method in Detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Sputum of Patients Suspected of Having Pulmonary Tuberculosis by Mardiastuti H Wahid, Agus Sjahrurachman, Ardath H Sitorus, Erlina Burhan

“…Conclusion: TB-LAMP has both high sensitivity and negative predictive value. …”
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Clinical usefulness of anti-α3Gal immunoglobulin E assays for cetuximab-mediated anaphylaxis in head and neck cancer by Y. Pointreau, C. Freneaux, T. Bejan-Angoulvant, D. Ternant, G. Calais, H. Watier

“…This resulted in a sensitivity and negative predictive value of 100% for both assays, with a specificity of 91.9% and 94.6%, respectively, and a positive predictive value of 57.1% and 66.6% for the 70BP and bTG assays, respectively. …”
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External Validation of 3 Prediction Models for Mortality in Out‐of‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survivors: A Retrospective Multicenter Study by Chun‐Hsiang Huang, Edward Pei‐Chuan Huang, Cheng‐Yi Fan, Yi‐Chien Kuo, Chien‐Tai Huang, Ching‐Yu Chen, Chi‐Hsin Chen, Yi‐Ju Ho, Chun‐Ju Lien, Yun‐Chang Chen, Sih‐Shiang Huang, Tzu‐Hsueh Wang, Wen‐Chu Chiang, Wei‐Tien Chang, Chien‐Hua Huang, Chih‐Wei Sung

“…The positive predictive value threshold was set at 0.85 to minimize false‐positive predictions. …”
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Defective verbs in Portuguese: a morphomic approach by O’Neill Paul

“…Morphomes are extremely informative since they exhibit systematic patterns of form that have a high predictive value within the morphological system. Within such a broader conception of meaning, morphomes have essentially the same predictive value as ‘meaning-driven’ patterns. …”
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Prognostic value of frailty across age groups in emergency department patients aged 65 and above by Yunhyung Choi, Ho Sub Chung, Ji Yeon Lim, Keon Kim, Yoon Hee Choi, Dong Hoon Lee, Sung Jin Bae

“…Abstract Background The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is widely utilized for risk stratification in emergency departments (EDs); however, its predictive value across various age groups remains unclear. …”
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The accuracy and precision of plain CT chest for diagnosis of anaemia by Mahnoor Hafeez, Amjad Sattar, Nasreen Naz

“…The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and diagnostic accuracy of chest computed tomography for quantitative diagnosis of anaemia were 48.6%, 76.5%, 76.5%, 50.6% and 60.5% respectively. …”
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Clinical Impact of an AI Decision Support System for Detection of Intracranial Hemorrhage in CT Scans by David Bark, Julia Basu, Dimitrios Toumpanakis, Johan Burwick Nyberg, Tomas Bjerner, Elham Rostami, David Fällmar

“…This study aimed to evaluate the predictive value and clinical impact of a clinically implemented artificial neural network software model. …”
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Combination of oximetry and sleep questionnaires as screening tools for CPAP initiation in patients with obstructive sleep apnea by A. Pataka, G. Kalamaras, E. Vlachogianni, P. Argyropoulou

“…Questionnaires alone had limited value as screening tools for CPAP initiation; the combination of oximetry with questionnaires did not improve their predictive value.…”
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Preoperative FLAIR images for identifying glioblastoma boundaries by Bayan Shukir, Laszlo Szivos, Pal Barzo, David Kis

“…To validate the reliability of our method, predictive values were defined. The group average positive predictive value and negative predictive value were 50% and 96%, respectively. …”
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Advancing Breast Cancer Diagnosis: A Comprehensive Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Malignant and Benign Cases with Precision and Insight in a Neutrosophic Environment usin... by Nihar Ranjan Panda, R. Rajalakshmi, Surapati Pramanik, Mana Donganont, Prasanta Kumar Raut

“…Four top machine learning algorithms are trained and evaluated with a series of performance measures such as accuracy, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), F1-score, etc. …”
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Application value of transrectal contrast-enhanced ultrasound combined with magnetic resonance imaging in T staging and treatment decision-making for middle and low rectal cancer by ZHAO Ran, ZHAN Weiwei, LI Cheng, TANG Hailang, BO Yulian, LIU Kun

“…For T2 rectal cancer, the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value were 91.3%, 96.3%, 91.3%, and 96.3%, respectively. …”
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Validity of procalcitonin and C-reactive protein as biomarkers in diagnosis of neonatal sepsis in a referral hospital, Kenya by Florence Chepyegon Tum, Joseph J.N. Ngeranwa, Geoffrey K. Maiyoh, Frank G. Onyambu

“…The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and area under the curve for PCT were 93.3%, 98.1%, 97.6%, 94.6% and 0.959, whereas for CRP they were 100%, 72.8%, 74.3%, 100%, and 0.953, respectively.Conclusion and Recommendation The CRP test exhibited superior sensitivity, negative predictive value, but lower specificity, making it a more valuable tool for ruling out NS. …”
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