Sentence examples for subsetting of patients from inspiring English sources

However, subsetting of patients through multiple layers of dichotomous markers is not practical and leads to unstable results due to the rapidly diminishing numbers in the subsets.

In fact, on these criteria, they beat even the subset of patients who had been diagnosed with psychopathic personality disorders.

Actimmune is "not a miracle drug, but it does appear to prolong life in a subset of patients".

But the F.D.A. is usually reluctant to approve a drug based on its working in only a subset of patients.

Like AG-221, it was designed for a distinct subset of patients, in this case those whose cancers carry a mutated form of the Notch gene.

What these cardiologists actually found was that, among the smaller subset of patients with stable disease, thirty-eight per cent of stents placed were ranked as uncertain.

Reviewing the data from the old trial, Dr. Cohn and NitroMed found that the drug had been remarkably effective in the subset of patients who were black.

Pharmacogenetics, however, does offer drug makers some advantages that might offset the risk that a particular drug would be limited in its use to a subset of patients.

Researchers say the study, based on brain scans of compulsive hoarders, provides the first solid evidence that hoarding defines a distinct subset of patients.

Using a method of analysis that would not be accepted today, he chose the subset of patients who improved with a placebo, and disregarded those who got worse.

Since tinnitus has so many causes, Dr. Cacace said, the challenge now is to find out which "subsets of patients benefit from this treatment".