Sentence examples for specimens as opposed from inspiring English sources

Based on our findings, the fluoroscopy team determined that because of a low occurrence of positive urine dipsticks, performing a dipstick only on suspicious specimens as opposed to every specimen is best nursing practice.

The primary limitation of this study results from use of routinely collected specimens, as opposed to systematic, active patient recruitment.

It is important to note that in our analysis, RANK/RANKL expression was evaluated in surgical specimens as opposed to core biopsies (as in the GeparTrio trial).

The use of combined nose and throat swab specimens, as opposed to nasopharyngeal aspirate specimens, may have resulted in a substantial number of false-negative results.

Prior handling of the specimens as opposed to usage directly after decontamination might have compromised the quality of the specimens and thus the performance of the assays.

The tests were designed so that only one single mixed-mode crack generates and propagates through the specimen, as opposed to the usual dense crack pattern found in most of the tests in scientific literature.

Furthermore, the therapeutic utility of their findings was limited by the inability to predict activation status of relevant oncogenic pathways in a given individual tumor specimen, as opposed to presenting average expression patterns in predefined tumor subgroups.

In other situations, the isolation may reflect colonisation, but given that colonisation itself is associated with substantial risk of subsequent infection[7] [9] and that there has been a clinical indication for taking a specimen (as opposed to a screen of an otherwise healthy appearing individual), its inclusion in a surveillance measure may be justified.

There is little research into the acceptance of a blood specimen as opposed to a saliva specimen for rapid testing and this may affect compliance to testing.

These correlative studies have based their analyses on the features of the final hysterectomy specimen, as opposed to a preoperative endometrial sample.

For example, the use of citrate anticoagulated plasma in such studies is questionable because many mechanisms are not active in such a specimen, as opposed to serum.