Sentence examples for clinical probability from inspiring English sources

Echocardiography did not change the probability of IE in any patient classified as rejected, but allowed reassignment of disease probability in a significant proportion of patients with possible or probable IE. Conclusions The YR of echocardiography was significant when clinical probability of IE was intermediate-to-high, and low, with marginal clinical utility, when clinical probability was low.

The clinical probability scoring system of '4 T' confirmed high probability in four cases and clinically supported the diagnosis of HIT.

In case of high clinical probability, CTPA is recommended.

Patients with high clinical probability were evaluated with CT scans and patients with low or intermediate clinical probability underwent d-dimer testing.

Clinical probability of PE has then to be assessed by clinical judgment or predictive rule [6].

First, a Wells score should be calculated to determine the clinical probability.

Firstly, the clinical probability should be determined by calculating a Wells score [2].

This suggests that a negative CTPA can be sufficient to exclude PE in patients with a non-high clinical probability of PE, but whether patients with negative CTPA and high clinical probability should be further investigate is controversial [2].

It is a strong plea to first establish the clinical probability of a disease before progressing to imaging techniques.

Studies are needed to validate an algorithm for establishing clinical probability of atypical pneumonia in the critically ill.

(DOC 27 KB) 13613_2012_107_MOESM3_ESM.doc Additional file 3: Clinical probability of HIT according to the Warkentin 4-T score.