For CKD, existing scores will largely detect people already diagnosed with CVD or type 2 diabetes, because prior CVD and type 2 diabetes are important predictors in these scores (10).
We wanted to compare the performance of the new filters with one of the already existing MnM filters, namely, the frequency score filter.
Already existing self-administrated foot and ankle scores contain numerous questions and can be complicated to use.
An already existing questionnaire (Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score, KOOS) was adapted for use in patients with inflammatory joint diseases by exchanging the word knee with leg in all the questions, no items were added or removed.
The authors should be congratulated for their attempt, and for the combination with the already existing well-validated Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score [ 2].
For many Baroque composers, revamping existing scores was a practical expediency.
Of the 38, eight developed new scores, 20 evaluated existing scores, and ten were cross-cultural adaptation of existing scores.
In BA, we requested that each new node connects to two already existing nodes, while in ER we set the density score (p=0.4).
It can however add to the already existing knowledge of mean values in different patient groups and patients with "lower" scores can be identified for more intense support during the rehabilitation process.
From the new feature space, which can be extended with some existing prediction-capable features (e.g., credit score), a support vector machine (SVM) classifier is built to combine these mined and already existing features.
