Sentence examples for poor diagnostic value from inspiring English sources

Hemodialysis (HD) population commonly show high plasma ferritin levels with a poor diagnostic value.

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.

It would appear that the poor diagnostic value of PPV in patients with ARDS is more closely related to the low lung compliance than to the low tidal volume [36, 37].

While the groups themselves are easy to distinguish, species-level identification of the aquatic larvae is challenging [35] and morphological characters in the adults are scarce and of poor diagnostic value [46].

Common tumor biomarkers like CA125, CA199, and CEA have exhibited poor diagnostic value in GC [ 32].

The SAPALDIA study, which used an epidemiologic approach, has also shown a poor diagnostic value [ 33].

Thus, poor diagnostic values in our study could not be solely explained by the slice thickness of 3 and 4 mm.

Although a raised corticotropin-releasing hormone concentration was positively associated with delivery at <37 weeks' gestation (χ2 = 9; P =.003), the predictive diagnostic value was poor, with sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values of 39%, 90 %, 67, and 75%, respectively.

According to quantitative reverse transcription PCR analysis, the diagnostic value was poor for antemortem swab samples but excellent for postmortem samples.

These figures illustrate what a poor diagnostic test the serum PSA value is for prostate cancer, in terms of both specificity and sensitivity.

Similarly, front-line intensivists adequately predicted LVEF in only 64 of our patients (68%), as reflected by a poor diagnostic agreement between the clinical assessment and the reference LVEF value.