This cannot be considered to be a true incidence because, without a specific code for neuropathic back pain, the study definition lacked specificity.
This permissive definition lacks specificity in intervention content, a characteristic also reflected in two definitions offered by Nick Heather, a key architect of contemporary thinking on brief interventions.
Guidelines recommend use of the HCAP criteria to determine need for empiric MRSA therapy, but this definition lacks specificity for CO-MRSA pneumonia and may lead to overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy [ 2, 11].
Although the concept of MOA is inherently useful for risk assessment, current definitions lack specificity for selecting low-dose extrapolation models.
Since sepsis definitions lack specificity and sensitivity, efforts have been made [ 3, 4, 9] and will be mandatory in the future to improve diagnosis and valid classification of patients to reduce variability within treatment groups, and to increase the probability of generating convincing results.
We did not include 4 90 - Bronchitis, not specified as acute or chronic in our administrative definition of COPD because the definition itself lacks specificity which increases the concern about misclassification [ 23, 24].
Use of subjective fever in the case definition may lack specificity, and has been avoided in some studies[6], but the specificity of this endpoint has not been formally calculated.
The proponents suggested that PV that has shown significantly reduced mortality in patients with lung injury could be extrapolated to a broader population, because the currently used clinical definition of ARDS lacks specificity that a substantial number of patients included in these trials had no diffuse alveolar damage.
The WHO clinical case definition is highly sensitive but lacks specificity.
The definition of cobalamin deficiency remains imprecise; a definition based only on clinical symptoms lacks specificity up to advanced stages, except in cases of pernicious anaemia.
Reservations are by definition lacking.
