Sentence examples for by exclusion of patients from inspiring English sources

In regard to prevalence rates, the GPs should positively trust their sensitivity in diagnosing MDE, and their specificity in diagnosing GAD by exclusion of patients without anxiety.

However, PETs do somewhat improve their results by exclusion of patients with minor depression and patients who used antidepressants prior to psychotherapy.

An additional analysis was performed to explore the effect of transfusions on the DCR, by exclusion of patients with a transfusion within 90 days prior to or during either EP from the analysis.

39 40 Nonetheless, the generalisability of our results may be limited by exclusion of patients with numerous comorbidities from the clinical trials that contributed data to the pooled analyses.

The sample was reduced to 98 (70 laparoscopic, 28 open) by exclusion of patients undergoing a rectal resection because such procedures (which typically result in higher costs and lower QALY due to requiring a stoma), 7, 10 were unevenly distributed between the groups (n=15, 17.6% laparoscopic; n=16, 36.4% open).

This persisted when estimates for UTIs were excluded (p<0.001, I=97.2%), when considering LRTIs alone (p<0.001, I=98.2%), when limited to cohort studies (p<0.001, I=97.3%), and when stratified by exclusion of patients with ESRD ESRDD excluded, p<0.001, I=88.9%: ESRD not excluded p<0.001, I=97.2%).

An additional limitation is that a suitable matching partner is not in general available for every patient– by exclusion of these patients a new thread of bias can arise.

The external validity of these studies, however, is compromised by exclusion of depressive patients who are treated with ECT in real-world ECT practice, i.e. patients with a lower severity of major depression or a variety of co-morbid conditions [ 4, 5], or patients with extremely severe illness [ 4].

By comparison to a recent study from a centre in central Kampala, Uganda [11] mortality rates observed here were higher than seen in the post-HAART era raising important questions as to what factors are predictive of a poor outcome to treatment, though such differences could be explained by exclusion of comatose patients and those on fluconazole in that study.

Hence, it is possible that PETs efficacy results were increased by exclusion of these patients.

They may also minimize the risk of having their drug associated with suicide by exclusion of suicidal patients.