While delirium was also associated with impaired pre-operative cognitive function, a more sensitive analysis considering the association between those two conditions and the development of delirium would have been informative.
Business came first, and to speak of anything more "sensitive" was considered tantamount to giving up the game before it began.
Fourth, the investigators used an insensitive PCT assay, which has been replaced in many settings by a more sensitive assay, considered more suitable for guiding antibiotic treatment decisions and for determining treatment-stopping rules [ 14].
However, it may be more sensitive to consider weaning methods as a continuum where parents rate the percentage use of pureed foods in their child's diet over time.
These findings suggest HIV interventions could probably be more effective if they targeted specific subgroups and that evaluations would be more sensitive if they consider community and sub-populations when evaluating these interventions.
The Prionics®-Check WESTERN™ kit was found to be 10 fold more sensitive if one considers the weak-positive criteria to be the detection limit, rather than the requirement for all PrPsc glycoforms to be present.
The combined risk for acquiring any type of viral infection was 1 in 34,000, and 88% of that risk was derived from hepatitis B and C. Current risks with improved, more sensitive tests are considered to be even lower (Table 1).
We chose to use disease-specific measures for treatment satisfaction and QOL in the current study because such measures are generally considered more sensitive than generic measures to the predicted effects of clinical trial interventions [ 18].
Once a stronghold of Catholicism in the Americas, Mexico's estimated 12 million Indians have abandoned the church in significant numbers to join Protestant religions, which many consider more sensitive to their economic and racial plight.
Pakistani officials have focused their recent disclosures on Dr. Khan's illicit spread of equipment to enrich uranium to produce nuclear fuel, and have said little or nothing of the blueprints for a nuclear warhead that went to Libya, which are considered more sensitive.
