Sentence examples for a baseline screening from inspiring English sources

All the patients underwent a baseline screening visit including sleep studies, respiratory assessment and cardiovascular function before been potentially involved in a randomized interventional controlled study.

As a baseline screening test for low-risk Japanese healthcare students at their course entry, QFT yielded quite discordant results, compared with the TST, probably because of the low specificity of the TST results in the BCG-vaccinated population.

However, the usefulness of this assay as a baseline screening test for healthcare students at the time of their entry into clinical studies has not been fully evaluated in Japan.

De-identified plasma samples obtained at a baseline screening visit were recruited from the specimen banks of tuberculosis case-contact studies conducted by the Medical Research Council, The Gambia, West Africa [16] and the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan [14], respectively.

Thus, these factors may lead to a false-positive TST result [9], producing quite discordant positive results between the two tests both in a baseline screening setting for healthcare students (1.4% vs. 27.5% for the whole blood test vs. the TST; Table 2) and in a routine screening setting for Japanese healthcare workers who have been employed for one or more years (9.9% vs. 93.1%) [2].

Parents were offered enrollment into the study after the completion of a baseline screening questionnaire.

The Knicks set the final play up for Houston, who ran off a baseline screen.

All other women with abnormal cytology were referred to colposcopy, resulting in a baseline screen referral rate of 32.1/1000 (Table 2).

Therefore these tests are not used as a baseline screen to monitor risk for developing de-novo hepatic injury in response to antidepressant exposure [ 134].

This information was used to estimate baseline and repeat screens as follows: (1) in year one, all screens are baseline screens; (2) in all subsequent years, 87.0% of the patients screened in the earlier year are assumed to receive repeat screens with the remaining patients screened in that year assumed to be new patients receiving a baseline screen (see Table 3).

For the purpose of our estimation of screening costs and malignancies detected, the 'Population Screened' described above for each year was divided into groups reflecting those receiving a baseline screen vs those receiving repeat annual screens.