In clinical studies, a tissue microarray study of breast tumours from 426 patients showed that loss of pSmad2C was associated with a shorter median overall survival (110.5 vs. 306.5 weeks, p = 0.024), suggesting that this may be a tumour specific poor prognostic factor [ 19].
Scenarios of the videotaped encounters were developed by NJP together with a Faculty member of each service not involved in the study and displayed a pre-defined number of specific poor and good communication skills.
Four groups of poor readers were identified among a population of students with learning disabilities attending a special class in secondary school: normal readers; specific poor decoders; specific poor comprehenders, and general poor readers (deficits in both decoding and comprehension).
TP53 mutations confer subgroup specific poor survival for children with medulloblastoma.
A retrospective record review of survivors and nonsurvivors, comparing clinical, laboratory, microbiological, and therapeutic data, to identify specific poor prognostic factors.
In fact, Rourke (1988) suggested that specific poor mathematical achievement can be related to so-called non-verbal learning difficulties characterized by poor visuo-spatial organization skill.
Moreover, OPN and/or CA9 identify specific poor prognosis subsets of patients, including for OPN those with non-cancer-related risk who may be best served by adopting an expectant approach to their management.
As LVSI is a cervical cancer-specific poor prognostic factor, further studies are warranted to determine whether a decrease in LVSI reduces the occurrence of micrometastases.
If all that is required is action to address a specific, isolated weakness, poor maths teaching, for instance, or insufficient support for FSM or able children, then a school could still avoid a full inspection if the inspector were confident that the weakness would be addressed.
In their analyses, Ding et al. (2009) show that using richer vectors of health conditions is important to understand the effects of a specific condition since poor physical and mental health conditions are positively correlated.
