This design has previously been attempted in palliative care by McWhinney et al (1994) [ 11] to evaluate a palliative care home support team but this single-blinded trial failed to recruit an adequate sample size due to problems with attrition and inaccurate prognostication; it is unclear what diagnoses the intervention was targeted at, but it was likely to have been patients with malignancies.
The characteristics of EEG during early postresuscitation period and the effect of hypothermia on EEG recovery and its prognostication value are still unclear [ 9, 10, 28].
It remains unclear whether serum DHCR24 Ab provides independent prognostication to those predictive models or clinical factors.
It thus remains unclear why Ki67 is so utilised in prognostication in invasive breast cancer and other tumours whilst MCM2 is not routinely used.
The exact mechanism by which tDRs may play a role in the diagnosis of MDS and prognostication of response to DNMTIs is unclear.
Whether these changes improve prognostication for node-positive patients, however, remains unclear.
Previous studies have attempted to improve prognostication for elderly ICU patients, but it remains unclear if predictors of mortality differed between the elderly and the nonelderly [ 20].
How much attention New Hampshire voters paid to the glut of horse race reportage and prognostication in the final days of the election was unclear.
For instance, the prognostication and management of patients with an intermediate RS remain unclear, and up to 40% to 60% of clinically intermediate-risk patients (that is, breast cancers combining ER-positive, HER2-negative, and grade II status) are allocated to the intermediate-risk RS group [ 78].
Yet, whether this score also allows short-term prognostication in unselected patients presenting to the ED with different cancer-related medical urgencies remains unclear.
This was satire, not prognostication.
