Sentence examples for because of poor specificity from inspiring English sources

Computerized drug prescribing alerts can improve patient safety, but are often overridden because of poor specificity and alert overload.

Finally, no autoantibody correlated with the fulfillment of RA criteria, mostly because of poor specificity.

8 13 Prior research indicates that such alerts are frequently overridden (49 96% of cases) because of poor specificity and high volume of alerts.

It has been suggested, however, that the value of depth of infiltration in clinical decision making is limited because of poor specificity in identifying high-risk patients (Keski-Säntti et al, 2007).

Unfortunately, many of the candidate markers have been of no clinical use because of poor specificity and/or sensitivity [ 7], and the only FDA approved serum marker for pancreatic cancer to date remains CA19-9.

TST is an inadequate tool for screening patients for LTBI before commencing anti-TNFα agents because of poor specificity in BCG-vaccinated individuals and poor sensitivity in patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID) on conventional immunosuppressants e.g. methotrexate and steroids.

An increase in stool antigen testing for Campylobacter spp. would affect surveillance data by causing the number of cases to be underestimated because of poor testing sensitivity and may also result in hampering outbreak investigation because of the poor specificity of antigen testing.

Because of the poor specificity of PSA, only about 1 in 4 patients with PSA in the grey zone will have cancer on biopsy.

Because of the poor specificity of acute respiratory illness in estimating influenza (27), we did not include analysis relying on acute respiratory illness only.

Nevertheless, because of the poor specificity of MRI, a suspect lesion has to be proven by guided biopsies, to avoid incorrect treatment.

TST was not performed in this study because of the poor specificity in areas of high BCG coverage like Uganda and where there is high prevalence of environmental mycobacteria.