It is the purpose of this paper to provide an outline of how to perform an unbiased appraisal of a prognostic study, allowing the physician to assess the applicability of the results to their patient and thereby assist with decision making in clinical practice.
S62 HELLP syndrome in ICU: epidemiological, clinical and prognostic study about 112 cases.
An intervention focusing on pain catastrophizing seems to have potential for improving pain outcome in patients prone to catastrophizing pain.Level I, prognostic study.
In this prognostic study, interestingly, patients with dyspnoea had a significantly higher rate of diabetes than those in other clinical subgroups.
A prognostic study was performed that evaluated the associations between maternal demographics, details of the accident that included restraint use, and maternal treatment that was related to the accident in relationship to perinatal outcome.
Standards have been developed to specify minimal required data elements (MIAME[29] for microarray data, REMARK[30] for prognostic study details), consistent data encoding (MAGE-ML[31] for microarray data), and semantic models (BRIDG (www.bridgproject.org) for study protocol details).
Although this prognostic study was not specifically designed to validate FT as a true surrogate endpoint of the severity of HBV chronic hepatitis [38], we observed as in HCV chronic hepatitis that FT fulfilled almost all of the 13 criteria of a surrogate endpoint biomarker [21], [39], including specificity and sensitivity for fibrosis [10], [20] [22].
Level II, prognostic study.
Level III, prognostic study.
Prognostic study, Level IV.
Level IV, prognostic study.
