The results of studies identifying these prognostic predictors are often inconclusive or contradictory.
NSS also appear as useful prognostic predictors for functional outcome, response and tolerance to antipsychotics.
The objective of this study was to identify prognostic predictors for the patients experiencing cardiogenic shock who required the institution of intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation (IABP).
With these limitations in mind, a systematic review was performed of epilepsy surgery studies aiming at identifying the positive and negative prognostic predictors of surgical outcome.
The present study was designed to identify the prognostic predictors for the surgical outcome of cervical OPLL based on the available evidence in the literature.
A number of gene expression profiling-derived prognostic predictors have been previously reported for NSCLC [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26].
Coincidences with other prognostic predictors were assesed.
Table 3 shows the final model of prognostic predictors.
Few published prognostic predictors have met these criteria [ 13, 14].
To evaluate prognostic predictors, a multivariate analysis of factors associated with cause-specific survival was performed.
Univariate and multivariate analyses were conducted to identify independent prognostic predictors for this cohort.
