Sentence examples for prevalence setting from inspiring English sources

The sensitivity analysis was conducted using the strategy selective screening with PCR in a high prevalence setting.

It is particularly important in a high HIV prevalence setting like Ethiopia [13], [14] where persons with HIV infection are at high risk of developing TB.

To date, there have been no studies of clinical or epidemiologic risk factors for MDR or XDR TB in a high HIV prevalence setting.

This study develops these findings by focusing on the performance of CRP in ambulatory SNTB suspects in a resource-limited high HIV prevalence setting in sub-Saharan Africa.

If the averted hospital costs of infection are real savings to the hospital, all evaluated screening strategies are cost-saving in a high prevalence setting.

The test's rule-in value can be enhanced by combining it with a clinical prediction rule developed for patients with suspected TBM from a high TB and HIV prevalence setting.

The results for this imbalanced prevalence setting are very similar to the equal prevalence setting.

Patient blinding, prevalence, setting, consecutive patient recruitment, and sample size were used as covariates.

Other rapid diagnostic tools such as nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT) have poor sensitivity in pleural fluid (∼50%; [3]), though the performance outcomes of a standardized NAAT has not previously been evaluated in a high HIV sero-prevalence setting [3].

In addition, the positive predictive values of rapid tests are probably much lower because of the low-prevalence setting.

Our data indicate that while many patients can be detected by microscopy in a high-prevalence setting [ 22], the addition of culture-based diagnosis can detect many more.