Sentence examples for modest predictive value from inspiring English sources
Although B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) strongly predicts cardiac morbidity and mortality, the European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) has a modest predictive value to identify a composite operative risk after cardiac surgery.
Given the modest predictive value of histology for chemotherapy response, we investigated whether patterns of oncogenic pathway activation are associated with resistance to commonly used chemotherapy agents in sarcoma.
Serum transaminases provide modest predictive value for hepatic steatosis in youth.
13 The original CHADS2 had relatively modest predictive value for stroke, especially for patients at intermediate risk.
Optimal cut-off values for each TEG index determined by ROC curve analysis exhibit improved, but only with modest predictive value compared to currently cut-off values.
Despite having modest predictive value for all bacterial infections, interleukin-27 may serve as a useful diagnostic biomarker among critically ill children with bloodstream infections.
It could be argued that the low sensitivity of the RBG and modest predictive values of the AM II suggest that the molecular tests of this study may not represent a good diagnostic standard for the detection of LS.
Conclusions: preliminary screening using clinical data has limited value in risk assessment prior to vascular surgery but preoperative heart rate variability, D-dimers and thallium scanning provide modest incremental predictive value.
Providers and their patients should have an appreciation for the modest positive predictive value inherent in colorectal cancer surveillance programs in order to make informed choices, which maximize quality of life during survivorship.
This test presents only modest negative predictive values and will not avoid biopsies in these latter patients.
When these optimal cut-off values were used, all four TEG indices showed statistically significant, but modest improvements in predictive value (area under ROC curves 0.59, 0.60, 0.58, and 0.57 for R, K, MA, and ANGLE, respectively).
