In patients with iatrogenic CJD, the diagnosis of dCJD was decided by confirmation of dura mater grafting.
Because the PPVs for all of our definitions were low, we decided that confirmation of individual cases was likely to be necessary (strategy 2).
Owing to the high percentage of pathology reports finally obtained (covering 94.9% of the breast cancers reported up to the sixth questionnaires) and because of the high rate of histologic confirmation (97.8% of these), we decided to consider in the present analysis reported breast cancer cases not yet confirmed (n=527).
Given the level of uncertainty over the outcome of the election, investors may simply be waiting for confirmation of a hung Parliament before deciding to sell.
When Congress created a vitally needed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as part of the financial reform law, Republicans in the Senate decided to block confirmation of a chief so the agency could not exercise its full regulatory powers.
It seems that in this context, the weather warning only serves as confirmation of what is already planned and decided on.
With the official confirmation of the Obamas' vacation plans, we decided to take a look back at where and how our nation's leaders chose to unwind.
Most registries or associated public health authorities, after confirmation of the cluster by preliminary investigation, decided on further monitoring rather than proceeding to full investigation.
Stemming from these theoretical and practical considerations, and based on data resulting from the confirmation of 110 SNVs, our group has decided to discontinue routine Sanger confirmation of reported Clinical Exome Sequencing results with quality scores >Q500 (SNVs only).
This may be due to fear of missing a life-threatening condition mimicking this condition, such as rupture of an aortic aneurysm, ovarian torsion or appendicitis, or to the need for imaging confirmation of the cause of symptoms before deciding on whether a patient may be discharged.
