A prior study evaluating hospitalized patients with cellulitis found females to be associated with earlier discharge and a lower risk of death.
The test characteristics of thoracic Point of Care Ultrasonography (PoCUS) for the diagnosis of acute congestive heart failure (CHF) are not well known, and no prior study evaluated the diagnostic impact of pleural effusions.
Although prior studies evaluated the role of EUS and EGD for drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts, there are no randomized trials that compared the technical outcomes between both modalities.
No prior studies have explored acquired resistance using genome-wide analysis of clinical samples, although 2 prior studies evaluated the gene expression pattern in residual disease after the completion of neoadjuvant chemotherapy [40], [41].
Researchers in two prior studies evaluated prediction models in women with BI-RADS 4 mammograms.
No prior studies evaluated the association of provider characteristics with intensification.
Two prior studies evaluated the ability of commonly used staging systems to predict the prognosis of patients with advanced HCC (Collette et al, 2008; Huitzil-Melendez et al, 2010).
Nonetheless, our prior studies evaluated the kallikrein panel in representative population-based cohorts and found consistent results to those reported here.
Second, most prior studies evaluated the association of childhood obesity with diagnosed or self-reported GDM or type 2 diabetes (10– 16), and little is known regarding the effect of maternal pregnancy glucose levels below the diagnostic threshold of GDM.
As summarized by Vrijheid (2000) in a review of epidemiologic studies of possible associations of health effects and residential proximity to hazardous waste sites, most prior studies evaluated specific contaminated sites and their surrounding communities rather than all sites and populations within a large area, as we have done.
Second, the analysis in this study relied upon linked administrative data; however, some of the prior studies evaluating the use of a CS indicated that the use of administrative data may yield similar or higher discrimination than models based upon medical records [ 17, 18].
