"Trials with positive results are twice as likely to get reported as negative results," Goldacre said.
■ If Russian athletes tested positive despite the other safeguards, the tests were simply reported as negative.
Samples are reported as "negative" (no detectable antibody at the screening dilution of 1 50) or the endpoint titer value.
Those women's results were initially reported as negative, but follow-up tests by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were inconclusive for eight of them and confirmed that one had contracted Zika, public-health officials said.
Out of 104 sexually active married women who were cytologically reported as negative by Pap test, 11 (10.5%) were found HPV positive and 7 (6.7%) of them had infection of high-risk HPV type 16.
This was reported as negative.
B. Axial CTA shows only a subtle asymmetry of the internal carotid lumen filling by contrast and was reported as negative for artery dissection.
CTA showed only a subtle asymmetry of the internal carotid lumen filling by contrast (Figure 1A, 1B) and was reported as negative for artery dissection.
If such a pattern is reported as negative, the additional information in the report on pattern and titer may go unnoticed because clinicians tend to pay less attention to negative results.
Nearly 60% of the households confirmed that livestock entrance to the park influenced wildlife populations, where competition for pasture (69%) and habitat destruction (31%) were reported as negative aspects.
In the second proposal a sample with an exclusively cytoplasmic pattern is reported as negative (with statement of the cytoplasmic pattern and titer), whereas a sample with mixed nuclear and cytoplasmic pattern is reported as ANA positive.
