Sentence examples for comparable utility from inspiring English sources

Locke envisions that what will be found beneath potentially vast differences in content, and beyond a similarity of form, is a comparable utility of various values across contexts.

Aspergillus PCR has similar sensitivity and specificity (76.8%–88.0% and 75.0%–94.5%, respectively) and comparable utility.

The closest comparable utility value in our study was the mean utility value for our reference group, 0.920.

In combination with CT angiography, PCT has comparable utility with that of MR in selecting patients for thrombolysis [ 38].

The Work Group concluded that computerized procedures initially should be used together with the established procedures in the field (for example, the ADAS) so that the comparable utility and sensitivity of the two types of testing can be identified.

Table  4 additionally shows permutation P values for six or more positive trends for each dose versus placebo without adjustment for multiplicity and they are 0.0022, 0.0021, 0.0017, and 0.0017 for the 10, 30, 100, 250 μg/kg/day doses, and their similarity supports the comparable utility of this criterion to identify departures from chance for the respective doses.

SG estimates based on the policy scale (perfect health/death) and the vision scale (perfect vision/unilateral blindness) [ 23] showed comparable utilities for mild to moderate visual loss (0.86 ± 0.24 to 0.89 ± 0.23) but contrastingly different estimates for patients with profound visual disability (0.39 ± 0.37 to 0.76 ± 0.30).

The inclusion of loss of quality-of-life for both parent and child prevents the time-tradeoff amounts from being directly comparable to utility values from generic utility instruments for measuring reductions in quality-of-life for chronic health states, such as the Health Utilities Index [ 25] or the EQ-5D [ 26].

A sub-analysis of the Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation Treatment of the Aged (BAFTA) study, looking at an older population (mean age 82, range 75 99) showed a comparable baseline utility for males (0.77) but a lower utility for females (0.68).

Randomized controlled trials confirmed that MDCTA in PAD is the optimal diagnostic imaging technique [ 25, 54] and reduces the diagnostic costs when compared to DSA and CEMRA with comparable clinical utility and patient outcomes.

Patient-rated EQ-5DST scores after the eight-week follow-up period was 0.78, which is comparable to utilities reported in other studies (0.79 [ 33]; 0.74 [ 21]; 0.76 [ 34]; 0.70 [ 35]).