Sentence examples for negative comparator from inspiring English sources

The uninfected negative controls in each experiment were taken as the negative comparator.

Antipsychotics (which are associated with a higher risk of hyperglycaemia but not hypoglycaemia [ 2, 3]) were chosen as a positive comparator group for hyperglycaemia and as a negative comparator group for hypoglycaemia.

Benzodiazepines were chosen as a negative comparator group for hypo- and hyperglycaemia because the use of benzodiazepines has not been associated with hyper- or hypoglycaemia, and patients using benzodiazepines are more likely to have similar baseline characteristics as patients using antidepressants because both benzodiazepines and antidepressants belong to the group of psychotropic agents.

Lastly, there was no HIV-negative control or comparator group.

By convention, positive numbers for NNT favoured olanzapine, and negative numbers favoured the comparator.

Furthermore, no study reported a negative effect versus a comparator on any outcome measure included in this review.

In this study, if the Vision ALD result was positive and the comparator was negative then the woman was tested for vaginal infection and underwent a second comparator test within 48 h.

Figure 4 highlights the outcome of this initial reaction 1 comparison and reveals a total 40% yield of UDP-Glc in the membrane-bound enzyme format compared to 12% in the solution phase and no reaction in the comparator CalC-based negative controls.

Each intervention (FFP or fibrinogen concentrate) could show a positive, negative or null effect against the comparator group or against absolute values where no comparator group was available.

To evaluate whether a prolonged test could improve the detection of LTBI, we set up the test using cured TB patients (with a microbiologically diagnosed past pulmonary disease) who resulted QFT-IT-negative and healthy controls as comparator groups.

The presence of overlapping distributions in the effectiveness, i.e., non statistically significant or small differences between two comparators, or even negative effectiveness, results in instability in the calculation of ICERs and their confidence intervals thereby rendering their interpretation difficult [ 10, 11].