Sentence examples for ineffective tests from inspiring English sources

I thought about this as I read the latest recommendations from the Choosing Wisely campaign — a project led by the American Board of Internal Medicine to inform doctors and patients about overused and ineffective tests and treatments.

Some states are now thinking about making their welfare recipients take drug tests, supposedly to make sure that tax dollars aren't going toward getting high, but that same money they think they'll be saving will get wasted on overpriced, ineffective tests.

Some people get too much healthcare, including expensive but unnecessary or ineffective tests and treatments[ 9], while others get too little or insufficient care, or none at all.

They called it an "ineffective test" operating at "substantial and material cost".

An area of 1 represents a perfect test; an area of 0.5 represents an ineffective test.

Rather, many feel that the oppressive and ineffective test preparation (e.g. "drill and kill") is the only way.

However, challenges exist with cancer biomarkers, including unsatisfactory specificity and sensitivity, difficult tissue accessibility, and ineffective test for detection.

So far, the system has proved to be ineffective: controlled tests have had minimal success over tracking and shooting down missiles, but this has not deterred the US from pressing ahead.

Dr. Skorecki's teratoma studies arose out of his frustration with animal models that were ineffective for testing cancer medicines.

But so far they have failed, with the vast majority of drugs that showed potential in animal studies proving to be ineffective when tested in humans.

A large-scale trial sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) subsequently found the tenofovir gel to be ineffective when tested among women in Africa.