Owing to the paucity of reliable estimates for US sensitivity and the possibility that these estimates do not accurately reflect current practice, we examined the impact of simultaneously varying the sensitivity of US for detecting tumours over a range of correlated values from 5 to 50, 10 to 75 and 50 to 100% for small, medium and large tumours, respectively.
In Malaysia, there is paucity of epidemiological estimates on the prevalence, characterization and risk factors of depression, anxiety and stress among diabetics.
For the inclusion of excess healthcare utilization for prenatal care, it was assumed that 50% of preterm births would have been associated with such care, due to a paucity of published estimates.
While there is a paucity of data estimating the physiological levels of sAPPα, it has been estimated to fall within the pM range within plasma and brain homogenates [ 79- 81], however, it is difficult to extrapolate these concentrations to the ex vivo model used in this study.
Given the scale of treatment envisaged, the paucity of data estimating the lifetime costs and efficiency of HIV treatment is a serious hindrance to effective planning.
11 This mainly reflects the paucity of readily available estimates and the urgent need for robust data to support burden of disease calculations in Africa.
Each of the papers was limited by paucity of diisocyanate exposure estimates, the presence of confounding exposures to known or suspected neurotoxicants, a lack of objective biological measures of exposure or neurotoxic effects, and lack of relative strength of association measures.
Because of the paucity of published data, estimating the real risk of symptomatic recurrence and need for reoperation after repetitive conservative surgery for endometriosis is very difficult.
However, despite the prevalence of this disorder, there is a paucity of published evidence estimating the economic and humanistic burden of illness in patients with GAD, especially in Europe.
The real problem is not simply bad faith, but the paucity of tools applied to estimate mortality, not least the lack of baselines for comparison that has in the past led to guesstimates described, in at least one case, as no better than "statistical anarchy".
