Sentence examples for low prevalence population from inspiring English sources

A recent study of a low prevalence population suggests that falsely positive tests may not be limited to African populations [ 5].

Although the CFT is an old and labour intensive technique, it still meets the requirements for diagnosing glanders in a low prevalence population.

However, as shown for samples from poultry [ 19], representing a low prevalence population, the second enrichment method does not make any statistical difference.

Because the predictive value of a single test in a low prevalence population may be <50%, we used a corroborative testing algorithm and restricted our risk factor analysis to those who had a confirmatory test of conversion.

In low prevalence situations, tests with low sensitivity such as Clearview may not be ideal as it has been reported that even very good tests have low positive predictive value while testing low prevalence population [ 25].

Thus a negative protein to creatinine ratio remains a good test for ruling out significant proteinuria, but positive tests results may have a high rate of false positives in this low prevalence population.

A fundamental challenge in scale development with low prevalence populations such as BD is recruitment of samples of sufficient size given that psychometric research generally requires 200 300 participants (Clark and Watson 1995).

We developed the BD Sx cognizant of the challenges inherent in scale development with low prevalence populations and the limitations of existing measures (e.g., over-reliance on patients in acute states recruited from psychiatric settings).

The objectives of this study were to develop a simple screening question for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and to evaluate its test characteristics in high and low prevalence populations.

Alternative methods are needed to rule out infection in persons with reactive EIAs from low prevalence populations.

Testing strategies that allow for more timely and accurate identification of false-positive HIV antibody test results should be considered for low prevalence populations, including pregnant women [13].