According to the clinical neurologic manifestations and EEG upon admission, we also suggest that some cortical dysfunction may have been induced by DMAB, though it was a negative finding on the image study 8 days after exposure.
The use of the term "falsification", with its connotations of an exact hypothesis that can be decisively falsified by a single or even a few negative findings is problematic.
Predictably, the doll-making project is a disaster, its doom ultimately sealed by the negative findings of the Center's market researchers.
47 Confidence in our ability to detect a 'true' signal using our methodology is increased by the detection of association between aspirin treatment and GI bleed, a well-known complication of aspirin treatment, as well as by the negative findings among the negative control diagnoses.
The controversy surrounding the relation between uric acid and endothelial dysfunction has been fueled to some extent by the negative findings of some studies in healthy controls.
Women presenting with advanced disease may be diagnosed and treated more quickly, because of the clearer clinical picture, while in those presenting with very early symptoms diagnosis may be delayed by false negative findings at the initial examination, resulting in further advanced disease at the time of treatment.
The analyses of arterial blood gas values were made among patients with confirmed PE and those in whom the disease was excluded, either by a negative angiogram or by the finding of a normal/near-normal scan, and between patients with and without prior CPD.
As shown in Table 2, among the 364 patients with prior CPD, a normal P(A a O2 gradient and a normal PaO2 were found with nearly equal frequencies in patients with PE and in those in whom the disease was excluded either by a negative angiogram or by the finding of a normal/near-normal scan.
The NAS was not deterred by the apparently negative findings of the Seychelles Islands study, which it noted was based on a smaller cohort than the Faroe Islands investigation and had only 50% statistical power to detect the effects observed in the Faroes (National Research Council 2000).
However, patients with ISP often undergo surgery because diagnosis of ISP preoperatively is difficult, and diagnosis is confirmed by negative findings in laparotomy [3].
