A multiple regression model was built to assess how biochemical index, disease activity, and clinical assessments could predict the variation of hip BMD in AS patients.
Instead of APACHE II or SAPS II scores we used the PSI score and CURB65 scores and these severity assessment tools could predict patients with an increased risk of death among community-acquired cases in the univariate analysis even though some observations needed for calculation of a full score were not available.
Froehlich et al. (17 ) conducted a prospective observational study to determine if a risk-assessment questionnaire could predict a positive TST result in a population of 31,926 children (1 18 years of age) in California.
Recently, Boselli et al. [7] reported that assessment of HRV could predict the appearance of postoperative pain immediately following the end of surgery.
Moreover, a study conducted in patients with HL suggested that quantitative assessment could better predict outcome than visual analysis [ 37].
Evidence from these qualitative and quantitative data analyses argued that the items were consistent with the cognitive model and four guiding principles used in their design, and that the assessment could successfully predict students' level of academic achievement in subsequent study of evolutionary biology.
In our previous work, we found that ultrasound assessment using wavelet transformation could predict the histological findings of tissue-engineered cartilage [ 8, 9].
The Israel study showed that a number of established risk factors for cardiac heart disease (CHD), among them a single casual assessment of blood pressure, could predict mortality.
Based on a pilot study with 34 patients, applying the modified sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score intraoperatively could predict a prolonged ICU stay, albeit with only 4 risk factors.
Although a detailed assessment of risk at the time of admission or prior to admission is difficult, we also examined whether the items of the HCR-20, a well-validated assessment of risk of violence, could predict length of stay.
