Supplementary testing of patients for concurrent STIs was recommended as follows: HIV (8 countries), syphilis (5 countries), hepatitis C (3 countries), hepatitis B (3 countries), and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (2 countries).
We conclude that pleural cholesterol level shows substantial promise as a supplementary test for distinguishing pleural exudates from transudates.
To overcome the low positive predictive value of highly-sensitive HPV testing in the vaccinated population with a low incidence of disease, a supplementary test for other biomarkers or co-testing with cytology is the way to move forward.
A subsample of 6 9 year old children later underwent sensory testing in the schools, as reported previously [ 16]. 1,696 schoolchildren participated in at least one supplementary test for sweet or fat preference.
Supplementary tests for anxiety-like behaviour and locomotion were carried out on the same mouse strains in order to rule out potential confounds with the evaluation of behavioural despair after the treatment with T2.
As far as normal cervical epithelium is p16INK4a-negative and the ratio p16INK4a-positive/ p16INK4a-negative samples increases at the advanced stages application of immunohisto-/cytochemical test for p16INK4a may be regarded as a supplementary test for early diagnostics of cervical cancer.
In addition, patients with FMS used significantly more health care resources (medical visits, referrals to specialists, and supplementary tests), except for hospital stays, than the reference group (Table 4).
For large exonic deletions and duplications, multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) has been added for supplementary testing.
In 2013, the recommendations were updated for supplementary testing whereby the diagnosis of a current HCV infection (a positive antibody test) should be confirmed by using a NAT test.
An alternative or supplementary test to the BT for knee hyperextension in standing could be to measure or verify knee hypermobility by goniometer measurements in supine lying, as applied in previous studies [ 22, 38] and/or measuring knee joint laxity, as these conditions seems to correlate in both adolescents and adults [ 24, 41].
Compared to non-doctors, doctors had better knowledge about the legislation determining patient eligibility for organ donation under HOTA (p < 0.05) and were more familiar with clinical and supplementary tests done for brain death certification (p < 0.001).
