Sentence examples for has poor sensitivity from inspiring English sources

These patients may have intermittent or low-grade small-bowel obstruction, for which CT has poor sensitivity.

The Sensatag uses an envelope detection architecture, has the advantage of simple implementation and low cost, but has poor sensitivity and selectivity.

Another analytical method, proton nuclear magnetic resonance can quantify VOCs quickly, but has poor sensitivity, cannot determine carbon length and some oxygenated VOCs cannot be measured because signals are confounded with sugar peaks (Mallette et al. 2014).

This technique assesses a reduction of blood flow with good sensitivity only with stenosis > 50% downstream; ultrasound investigation has poor sensitivity in non-stroke patients with isolated Horner syndrome [15].

The currently accepted surveillance regime uses white light endoscopy together with random biopsies, but has poor sensitivity and discards information from numerous light tissue interactions that could be exploited to probe structural, functional, and molecular changes in the tissue.

These considerations must be balanced against the fact that there is a paucity of adequate zinc biomarkers, and the most widely used indicator, plasma zinc, has poor sensitivity and specificity.

Cultures of sputum samples are significantly less sensitive than BALF [ 13] and cultures of the oropharynx have poor sensitivity and do not reliably predict the presence of organisms in the lower airways [ 14].

"The brief and compromised health assessments have poor sensitivity for detecting significant medical problems," the letter says.

However, these factors have repeatedly being shown to have poor sensitivity and specificity for sepsis diagnosis [23, 24].

IHS-I criteria for migraine have poor sensitivity and a 26.9 66% rate of diagnostic capability in childhood [8 13].

WFT at a titer of 1 320 has been shown to have poor sensitivity and specificity (46 %) when compared to the gold standard immunofluorescent antibody assay [2].