In the present study, PCT appeared to be a more accurate diagnostic parameter for differentiating between patients suffering from SIRS and those with sepsis.
In contrast, Fleischhack et al. suggested that procalcitonin is a more useful diagnostic parameter in febrile cancer patients than IL-6, IL-8 and CRP [ 18].
In the present study PCT was found to be a more accurate diagnostic parameter for differentiating SIRS and sepsis, and therefore daily determinations of PCT may be helpful in the follow up of critically ill patients.
26 We defined statistical heterogeneity as non-overlapping confidence intervals for estimates of diagnostic parameters and a difference in these estimates among the studies of more than 20%.
CSF cystatin C measurements may possess a more limited diagnostic capacity for ALS than previously proposed, but may still have the potential to improve the diagnostic parameters of a biomarker panel.
Calculation of Mutual Information allows parameters that have poor diagnostic value to be identified, potentially enabling resources to be focussed on more diagnostic observations and allowing simplification of the BBN by removing links which emerge as uninformative.
Then, probably, more diagnostic testing.
Sébastien, discovering that the floor below is entirely empty, bribes both the hospital administrator (who babbles breathless boilerplate about diagnostic parameters and resource allocations) and the union officials who really run things.
So more and more of us have knee surgery, back surgery, angioplasty and more diagnostic investigation.
With "The Hurt Locker," I tried to be more reportorial, more diagnostic.
