Sentence examples for frontline testing from inspiring English sources

Indeed, program directors continue to question why the only commercially available and affordable POC TB test is unavailable for frontline testing?

However, this study's patient population is the major subgroup presenting to primary care facilities for frontline testing and although preliminary data suggest that this is not the subgroup most likely to benefit from LAM, data is nevertheless essential for clear recommendations to guide implementation across TB programs.

Sperm analysis is just a frontline test; it can't really detect fertility or infertility on its own.

These assays have been developed by the WOSSVC and used as the frontline test for respiratory samples since 2005.

Where programs seek to detect just a proportion of cancers with high efficiency and low colonoscopy rates [ 29], a blood DNA test might be acceptable as a frontline screening test if a participatory advantage can be demonstrated in practice.

A blood test could be deployed as an alternative frontline screening test or else as a "rescue" strategy that aims to engage those who reject the existing RCT-proven methods such as FOBT and flexible sigmoidoscopy.

Because qPCR is comparatively labour intensive and expensive it is not practical for use on individual animals as a whole herd screening test and it has been used as a research tool rather than as a frontline diagnostic test in NZ.

Accordingly, TSH has been recommended as a frontline screening test for thyroid dysfunction, as relatively modest changes in TH concentrations are associated with marked excursions in TSH.

The failure of the LBA to confirm that 31.5% of the hc2-positive samples contain hc2 HR-HPV types is a cause of concern, especially if this assay was to be used as a frontline screening test.

The report suggests testing the argument that frontline social workers need greater autonomy to better exercise their professional judgment by granting five local authorities temporary suspension of large tranches of statutory guidance.

For frontline docs, Brown and Columbia University's Stanley are testing a safety plan that patients write out with a clinician and keep with them at all times.