However, because only a four-site GeneXpert™ system was available, the results for all 22 patients were obtained 9.5 hours after sampling, and decision about the GRE-control strategy was therefore made at the end of the day.
This might help ICU physicians in refining bedside diagnostic tools, in addition to traditional microbiological sampling and decision-making strategies, and calls for further validation on a larger population.
Although we have provided technical advances with quantitative sampling and decision-support tools, the major reason for success lies at commune level with local leadership by the CMCs to guide collaborators who educated and motivated householders on dengue vector control, but also serviced some of their needs.
As a consequence, the samples and the decision to issue the samples to a requestor are not transferred to a large organisation but instead remain with the collector, thus allowing autonomous negotiation between collector and requestor, potential co-authorship in publications or compensation for collection and processing costs.
The software integrates modules for GIS, visualization, geospatial analysis, statistical analysis, human health and ecological risk assessment, cost/benefit analysis, sampling design, and decision support.
Studies on rhabdomyolysis usually cover a wide disease spectrum with diverse etiologies, dissimilar diagnostic criteria for AKI and rhabdomyolysis, various methods, and differences in sample collection and decision cutoff values [24].
Simon's two-stage minimax design was used to determine the sample size and decision criteria.
In addition, we derive optimized adaptive designs that maximize expected utilities by optimizing the first stage sample size and decision thresholds for the selection of subgroups.
Simon's two-stage minimax design was used to determine the sample size and decision criteria for this phase II trial (Simon, 1989).
LQAS applies cumulative probabilities calculated with a binomial formula to select small sample sizes and decision criteria for judging a group of providers.
