Sentence examples for modest diagnostic accuracy from inspiring English sources

9 Two forms of tuning fork test, one based on pain induction and the other on sound transmission, showed modest diagnostic accuracy with some ability to rule out fractures.

The following interpretation of AUC values is traditional: AUC < 0.7 suggests "low" diagnostic accuracy, AUC 0.7 0.9 "moderate" diagnostic accuracy, and AUC > 0.9 "high" diagnostic accuracy [ 33].

This initial study identified the potential utility of PSAD in differentiating prostate cancer from benign disease with subsequent studies demonstrating a modest improvement in diagnostic accuracy with application of PSAD in addition to PSA [ 66].

Our series showed only mild-modest improvement of the diagnostic accuracy in the patient group initially scored as BIRADS 4A with 72.7% of patients remaining with the same score.

Attempts have been made to improve on the established syndromic algorithms, with modest improvement, at best, in diagnostic accuracy [ 14, 17].

The principal findings of this study performed in selected critically ill patients with suspected CRBSI are: (1) the confirmation of good diagnostic accuracy of PCT; (2) the modest discriminative value of other indicators of inflammation, such as WBC, and CRP; and (3) the good prognostic performance of PCT and PCT kinetics as a monitoring tool to infection control during antimicrobial therapy.

Diagnostic accuracy was low for all studies.

106 107 The diagnostic accuracy of serum anti-dsDNA is also modest with positive and negative likelihood ratios ranging from 1.5 4.8 and 0.3 0.8, respectively.

Two studies showed reasonable overall diagnostic accuracy with diagnostic ORs >10, but other studies showed only modest values (table 3).

In this study DTS was confirmed to be decisive in confirming or ruling out pulmonary lesions and differentiating true pulmonary opacities from those due to pleural or thoracic wall lesions or pulmonary pseudo-lesions with a clear improvement in diagnostic accuracy, confidence and inter-reader agreement in comparison to CXR and with a modest increase in the radiation dose and interpretation time.

The diagnostic accuracy of clinical signs and symptoms was low.