Kim, Cohen et al. (2005) showed that a minimum of DSM-IV-TR CD criteria were sensitive enough to identify preschoolers who might benefit from intervention [ 14].
In this case report, our patient illustrates that this rare tumour with its unique location and diagnostic morphologic criteria is sensitive to a combination of anthracycline-based chemotherapy and radiotherapy, resulting in complete response for 2 years.
For instance, a seven-item, weighted, clinical score system comprising grunting, abdominal distension, increased pre-feed aspirates, tachycardia, hyperthermia, chest retractions and lethargy showed that these criteria were sensitive for identifying newborns with septicaemia [ 7].
However, several studies have shown that UO criteria are more sensitive and associated with better outcomes; and when a patient meets both SCr and UO for a certain stage, outcomes are marked more worse [13].
The commonly used criteria are too sensitive but poorly specific [3]; as a result, up to 50%% of patients diagnosed with VAP do not have the condition and up to 30%% of cases of VAP are not correctly identified [4].
These findings indicate that the remission criteria are both sensitive and specific indicators of clinical status.
4 15 16 The 2010 criteria are more sensitive in classifying RA patients compared with the 1987 criteria.
Therefore, as our results have shown, biases may be quite large when diagnostic criteria are not sensitive or specific enough.
However, a study conducted in Canada suggests that CD4 cell criteria are neither sensitive nor specific in predicting which patients have failed to achieve virologic suppression [ 24].
Comparisons with NDDG and O'Sullivan's (Carpenter and Coustan) methods suggest that the WHO criteria are more sensitive in identifying GDM [15,16].
