Sentence examples for reference testing from inspiring English sources

To compare subjective and objective clinical tests used in the screening for hydroxychloroquine retinal toxicity to multifocal electroretinography (mfERG) reference testing.

Ideally, each hospital laboratory would perform reference testing independently to determine the precision of the assay and local "cutoff" points.

Although in our study the MicroScan and BD Phoenix systems produced results that were more consistent with those with the reference testing systems than those with the VITEK and Sensititre AutoReader systems, problems detecting carbapenem resistance were still evident with the former systems.

We considered five studies to have unclear risk of bias in the flow and timing domain because discrepant analysis was performed (Ajbani 2012; Barnard 2012; Kiet 2010; Lacoma 2012; Lopez-Roa 2012) meaning that not all patients received culture-based and sequencing reference testing.

We also pre-specified in the protocol investigations of heterogeneity in relation to HIV status, condition of the specimens (fresh or frozen, volume of specimen), patient population (patients suspected of having MDR-TB or XDR-TB) and whether WHO-recommended critical drug concentrations were used for culture-based reference testing.

Hence, it is difficult to make a decision on which patients are to be referred for reference testing (imaging) on the basis of signs and symptoms only.

But the watchdog does not seem to fully grasp the potential of its proposed reference test.

So Ofqual's announcement that it will introduce a national reference test is welcome news.

The national reference test and changes to the grading system will not solve all the current problems of GCSEs.

This specimen carried approximately equal load with DE1 reference test specimen which is the flexural reference.

Diagnostic tests are validated by comparison against a "gold standard" reference test.