Early point-of-care focused echocardiographic asystole as a predictive factor for absence of return of spontaneous circulatory in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests: a study protocol... by François Javaudin, Philippe Pes, Emmanuel Montassier, Arnaud Legrand, Aline Ordureau, Christelle Volteau, Idriss Arnaudet, Philippe Le Conte

“…We thus intended to investigate this predictive value with a prospective multicentre study. …”
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Triglycerides/high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol ratio outperforms traditional lipid indicators in predicting metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease among U.S.... by Jin Yuan, Xuequan He, Yan Lu, Xuehua Pu, Lihe Liu, Xuejun Zhang, Jinping Liao, Guiling Li, Ying Luo, Tianwu Zhang

“…The TG/HDL-c ratio demonstrated the highest predictive value (AUC = 0.732, 95% CI: 0.683–0.781), compared to TG (AUC = 0.713, 95% CI: 0.664–0.762) and HDL-c (AUC = 0.313, 95% CI: 0.264–0.362). …”
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Value of ACEF-II Score in Predicting Major Adverse Cardiac Events in Patients With Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Unstable Angina by Burak Ayça, MD, Yasin Yüksel, MD, Cennet Yildiz, MD

“…Background: A score based on age, creatinine level, and ejection fraction as well as hematocrit value and the presence of emergency surgery (ACEF-II) has been proposed to have predictive value for risk stratification in cardiac surgery. …”
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Magnetic resonance imaging-guided prostate biopsy—A review of literature by Kulthe Ramesh Seetharam Bhat, Srinivas Samavedi, Marcio Covas Moschovas, Fikret Fatih Onol, Shannon Roof, Travis Rogers, Vipul R. Patel, Ananthakrishnan Sivaraman

“…It also has a high negative predictive value (NPV) of 89%–92% and a positive predictive value (PPV) of 51%–52%. …”
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Validity of serum autotaxin and Doppler ultrasound as noninvasive markers of esophageal varices in patients with liver cirrhosis by Doaa El Wazzan, Ayman F. El-Shayeb, Soraya Hamouda, Mohamed El Shafei, Akram A. Degheidy, Basma Salem, Mohamed Adel

“…Child–Pugh classification, fibrosis-4 (FIB-4), age to platelet index (API), model for end-stage liver disease (MELD), platelet/splenic diameter, portal vein velocity, flow volume, and serum autotaxin were entered in stepwise logistic regression model for prediction of esophageal varices, and serum autotaxin, portal vein velocity, and flow volume were significant in multivariate regression analysis with sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) of 96.25%, 75%, 93.9%, and 83.33%, respectively. …”
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Utility of Spinal Injury Diagnosis Using C-Spine Lateral X-Ray and Chest, Abdomen and Pelvis Computed Tomography in Major Trauma Patients with Impaired Consciousness by Yoon Soo Jang, Byung Hak So, Won Jung Jeong, Kyung Man Cha, Hyung Min Kim

“…Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value were measured for evaluation of the performance of diagnostic methods. …”
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Balanced Steady-State Free Precision and Time of Flight Noncontrast Magnetic Resonance Angiography in Peripheral Arterial Disease by Soumya Susan Regi, Aparna Irodi, Shyamkumar N. Keshava, Sunil Agarwal

“…Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of NC-MRA in identifying significant stenosis, as compared with CE-MRA/CTA, were estimated. …”
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Impact of Complete Blood Count (CBC) Parameters in Preterm Birth Prediction in Cases with Threatened Preterm Labour (TPL) by Aysegul Ercan, Aysun Firat

“…Conclusions: SII seems to have an important predictive value for preterm delivery, similar to CL measurements already used in the clinic. …”
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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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A Node Ranking Method Based on Multiple Layers for Dynamic Protein Interaction Networks by Bin Li, Li Pan, Jing Sun, Haoyue Wang, Junqiang Jiang, Bo Yang, Wenbin Li

“…Then the predictive performance of the ten centrality methods are validated in terms of sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, F-measure and accuracy. …”
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Needle core biopsy for breast lesions: An audit of 467 needle core biopsies by Selvi Radhakrishna, Anu Gayathri, Deepa Chegu

“…Results: 437 patients were symptomatic and 30 patients had screen detected abnormalities. The positive predictive value for BI-RADS 5 lesions for malignancy is 93.25% and the negative predictive value of BI-RADS category 3 lesions for cancer is 98.4%. …”
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Caregivers’ Ability to Assess for Wasting Status of Their Under Five Children: A Cross Sectional Study at Mwanamugimu Nutrition Unit, Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Ug... by Prudence Ainomugisha, Hanifa Bachou, Martin Kasendwa, Amanda Murungi, Benard Owori, Susan Akriat, Richard Kajjura, Christopher Garamoi

“…Overall, 72 (98.6%) of participants were able to measure MUAC and categorize the wasting status of their children with high sensitivity (100%, 97.5 Positive Predictive Value) and specificity (97.1% 100% Negative Predictive Value). …”
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The Functional Severity Assessment of Coronary Stenosis Using Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography-Based Myocardial Mass at Risk and Minimal Lumen Diameter by Kenji Sadamatsu, Kazuhiro Nagaoka, Yasuaki Koga, Kotaro Kagiyama, Kohei Muramatsu, Kiyoshi Hironaga, Hideki Tashiro, Takafumi Ueno, Yoshihiro Fukumoto

“…The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of MMAR/MLD for FFR ≤ 0.8 was 0.746, and the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value were 60%, 83%, 68%, and 77%, respectively, at a cut-off value of 29.5 ml/mm. …”
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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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Comparative study of three vaginal markers of the premature rupture of membranes: Insulin like growth factor binding protein 1 Diamine‐oxidase pH by Pascal Gaucherand, Bruno Salle, Philippe Sergeant, Suzanne Guibaud, Jocelyne Brun, Charles Albert Bizollon, R. C. Rudigoz

“…The parameters studied were conventional statistical parameters (sensitivity=SN, specificity=SP, positive predictive value=PPV and negative predictive value=NPV). …”
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Patient-reported symptoms in the detection of head and neck cancer recurrence: a systematic review by Kate Hulse, Kate Hulse, Rhona Hurley, Rhona Hurley, Rhona Hurley, Anja Lowit, Roma Maguire, Claire Paterson, Claire Paterson, Claire Paterson, Catriona M. Douglas, Catriona M. Douglas, Catriona M. Douglas

“…Median specificity, positive-predictive value (PPV) and negative-predictive value (NPV) were 79.3%, 9.3% and 98.0% respectively. …”
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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

“…Furthermore, an intuitive nomogram consisting of these multi-omics signatures (serum COX-2 and fecal phenylethylamine), combined with clinical characteristics with predictive value, was constructed to predict SARE. Notably, the evaluation of model performance suggested an excellent predictive discrimination for SARE [AUC, 0.975; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.953–0.998]. …”
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Assessing the diagnostic accuracy of radiological and histological findings in the diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease stages among patients in a tertiary hospital by Ekpe Edemekong L, Emanghe U, Ekpe EL, Obiora IC, Yemiode Itam, Akinmola OO

“…The sensitivity, specificity, Positive Predictive Value (PPV), and Negative Predictive Value (NPV) were evaluated. …”
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CT delta-radiomics predicts the risks of blood transfusion and massive bleeding during spinal tumor surgery by Suwei Liu, Yali Li, Shuai Tian, Chenyu Jiang, Ming Ni, Ke Xu, Feng Wei, Huishu Yuan

“…Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, integrated discrimination improvement (IDI), accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value were used to evaluate and compare the diagnostic performance of these models. …”
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The Development of TIM-Barrel Based Multi-Epitope Protein for <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i> Serological Detection in Cats by Preeyanuch Thongpoo, Jiravich Methawiroon, Bandid Mangkit, Rucksak Rucksaken, Metita Sussadee, Warin Rangubpit, Sasimanas Unajak, Sathaporn Jittapalapong, Eukote Suwan

“…Among these, ELISA-V4Z achieved the highest concordance with the reference IFAT method (Kappa = 0.58, 95% CI = 0.32–0.84) and demonstrated a moderate positive predictive value (PPV, 67%) and strong negative predictive value (NPV, 90%). …”
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