We evaluated whether on presentation and 4-hour high-sensitivity troponin I (hs-cTnI) could be used to accurately rule-out AMI.
We aimed to investigate whether urine dipstick and microscopy results could accurately rule out urinary tract infection (UTI) without urine culture.
cough headache, sexual headache, exertional headache it is mandatory to accurately rule out any possible organic cause (that is to exclude a possible secondary origin) when a patient with one of these provoked headaches is seen for the first time.
Although perirenal haematomas may represent isolated lesions, in most cases they are associated with parenchymal lacerations and the presence of opacified urine extravasation must be accurately ruled out by means of delayed scans.
Although in trauma patients, the presence of obesity, large hematomas, subcutaneous air, or large open wounds of the skin can represent a technical limitation to the penetration of the sound waves, with point-of-care ultrasound and Color flow Duplex Doppler is possible to accurately rule in or rule out trauma-related vascular injuries, [15, 16, 23, 24].
Objectives: The aims of the study were to determine whether a Gram stain of cervical mucus can accurately rule out infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae or Chlamydia trachomatis and to compare a diagnostic test that is based on the polymerase chain reaction with a deoxyribonucleic acid probe in the detection of these organisms.
Neither presence nor absence of pallor, regardless of its severity, can accurately rule in or rule out moderate anaemia.
Pregnant women with reactive HIV EIA results would benefit from a testing algorithm which would accurately rule-out HIV infection status in a timely way before the onset of labor, without the provision of indeterminate results which may cause undue stress in someone who is not infected.
However, the high NPV of 93% can accurately rule out early dementia in those who were screened negative with EDQ.
