Sentence examples for beneficial tests from inspiring English sources

It would confirm the fear of many that the real intent was to give government decision makers new power to cut costs by denying patients access to medically beneficial tests and treatments.

Blood-based assays of particular miR concentrations may represent novel and clinically beneficial tests for different aspects of prostate cancer management and warrant further investigation in large prospective patient cohorts.

Given that in 2009 only 50percentt of American women of that age had a mammogram, women need to be encouraged to obtain this beneficial test, not discouraged.

On the other hand, withholding an apparently beneficial test may deny a benefit for patients.

In subgroup analyses, antiviral therapy was more beneficial (test for subgroup differences p=0.03) in virological responders (0.15, 0.05 to 0.45) than in non-responders (0.57; 0.37 to 0.85).

Some participants stated that removal of this requirement fulfilled responsibilities to patients by reducing barriers, which had prevented patients from receiving a beneficial test.

Some stated that the opt-out approach respected patients' rights because it provided an adequate process for patients to refuse testing and gave them an opportunity to gain access to a beneficial test.

"It is exploitative to promote and provide medically non-beneficial testing through the use of misleading and fear-mongering advertisements in order to generate medically unnecessary but profitable referrals to the institutions partnered with HealthFair," said Dr. Michael Carome, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group.

She says she believes the foundation was originally selected to take part in the effort to counter a "negative front-page article" in The New York Times in 2009 that questioned how beneficial screening tests for cancer really are.

The course aimed to equip international first-year students with two skills: 1) essential knowledge and skills beneficial for tests and exams during the first semester; and 2) a degree of familiarity with living and studying in a German city.

The nomogram requires the availability of an 8 h CLCR and vancomycin serum concentration monitoring, which is not available in all ICUs, but these results demonstrate how beneficial such tests can be to ensure more accurate antibiotic dosing.