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... in diagnostic meta-analyses, all of the estimations of the diagnostic accuracy were performed considering the large variability across individual ...part ... See full document

... 1 diabetic patients and short DM duration ...risk of developing ESRD when compared to patients with KK genotype (OR ...with the Q allele had an increased risk of having a decreased GFR ... See full document

... on the association between adiponectin concentrations and risk of CVD reported in the original ...approximate the same measure of RR. The most adjusted one was chose if ... See full document

... exacerbations. Methods: This was a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials involving patients with stable, moderate to severe COPD according to ... See full document

... on the p value of the hetero- geneity ...on the sensitivity and specificity of each study for assessing the diagnostic ...regression of the logits ... See full document

... Methods and Findings: Two independent reviewers searched six databases from inception to March 2009 for evidence pertaining to the safety and efficacy of selenium for lung ...Pubmed ... See full document

... factors, and patient management for all the countries considered for this ...Accordingly, the databases were searched using each key term by appending the countries ...Data and/or ... See full document

... that the expressions of 10 antibod- ies ...sensitivity and specificity, using a small blood sample. Although the function of a number of antibod- ies is unknown, it has been ... See full document

... a meta-analysis of complication in patients with infected nonunion of tibia and femur treated by Ilizarov ...most of the complica- tions (Table 4). The rate ... See full document

... assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies Risk of bias of individual studies is summarized in Table ...risk of bias, although due to missing data and loss to follow-up 4 ... See full document

... Our meta-analysis has certain limitations. First, the majority of studies included represent small and somewhat heterogene- ous ...in the patient’s group, we had to accept some ... See full document

... Osteoarthritis and early exit from work – results from the EpiReumaPt study 52 • P9 – The accuracy of osteoporotic fracture risk prediction tools: a systematic review ... See full document

... intense and diffuse in papillary carcinoma and heterogeneous labeling in carcinoma and in follicu- lar adenoma, with nil or low expression in other benign lesions ...in the pathogenesis ... See full document

... consensus and protocols that recommend optimised practices for PCR in MCL (da Graça et ...that the use of techniques aimed to increase the sensitivity of the tests should be ... See full document

... sensitivity and specificity along with the 95% CI were calculated using exact methods and forest plots were generated using RevMan (version ...sensitivity and specificity estimates ... See full document

... One of the most important limitations of this study is that we excluded studies with fewer than eight cases of ...relevance of studies because of an initial inten- tion to ... See full document

... Standard methods recommended for meta-analyses of diagnos- tic test evaluations were ...used. The following measures of test accuracy were computed for each study: the ... See full document

... This review indicates that the accuracy of the BSDS, HCL-32 and MDQ are cut-off ...dependent. The instruments should not be considered case-finding tools, because a ... See full document

... Background: The impact of telemedicine application on the management of diabetes patients is unclear, as the results are not consistent among different ...studies. The objective ... See full document

... in the spectrum of patients, the target condition was always the same: pleural ...Regardless of its cause, the accuracy of sonography in detecting the target ... See full document