Sentence examples for children specificity from inspiring English sources

In children, specificity is much lower due to high carriage rates [ 5, 13].

Therefore, no performance evaluation for EMA using ROC curve analysis was done in group A. Within group A2, positive EMA were found in 3 children (specificity 0.94; 95% CI 0.86 to 0.99) who all had Marsh 0 as the result of the small intestinal biopsy.

Sensitivity varied from 0.043 (second trimester screening) to 0.999 (live born child), and specificity ranged from 0.393 (assessment of alcohol screening prior to pregnancy) to 0.999 (use of snuff at 32 gestational weeks).

PEM physicians with focused US training were able to diagnose skull fractures in children with high specificity.

Thus, ELISA tests in children showed high specificity and LR+ values, but low sensitivity and high LR− values.

While procalcitonin (PCT) has become an established sepsis marker in adults and children, sensitivity and specificity of PCT are only moderate in EOS due to the physiologic PCT increase during the first days of life.

Achenbach et al. [ 4] argued long ago that an observer-informant discrepancy does not necessarily represent an actual disagreement because it could derive from inconsistency of child behavior across settings, often called situational specificity, with children behaving differently at home and at school.

Unfortunately the test has poor specificity in children due to detection of pneumococcal nasopharyngeal colonization: 22 - 67% of healthy children colonized with S. pneumoniae, from various countries, have been found to have a positive BinaxNOW test [ 5- 9].

Further studies are necessary to assess the prevalence of neurodevelopmental abnormalities and to analyse the β2GPI domain specificity in children with persistent APL, as well as the significance of persistent APL in these children.

A complex problem concerning the disability of rural children stems from the specificity of a rural environment.

My advice to aging parents: Make your health care wishes known to your children with the utmost specificity.