Sentence examples for utility for diagnosing from inspiring English sources

The RDQ, which has been psychometrically validated [ 13] and shown its utility for diagnosing GERD [ 16], has also been adapted and validated in Spanish [ 14].

Although these are objective measures for characterizing asthma, they have limited utility for diagnosing asthma, because bronchial responsiveness to methacholine is a sensitive measure of asthma but is not very specific, whereas exercise-induced bronchoconstriction is a very specific measure but has low sensitivity (Carlsen et al. 1998; Godfrey et al. 1991).

Our STRUCTURE analyses suggested that the microsatellites possessed little utility for diagnosing subspecies (Appendix  C).

Similar to these previous studies, we found that cytokines and proteins with antimicrobial function provide the greatest utility for diagnosing PJI.

The study reports the discovery of AREG, a secreted epidermal growth factor receptor ligand, as a biomarker with potential diagnostic utility for diagnosing and managing pancreatic cystic neoplasms.

Fifteen tests demonstrated moderate diagnostic utility for diagnosing and/or excluding hip fractures, symptomatic osteoarthritis and loosening of components post-total hip arthroplasty.

This is one of the first studies to demonstrate the utility of HbA1c for diagnosing diabetes and has shown that 6.4% is an optimum HbA1c threshold for the Abu Dhabi national population.

Similar reference standards have been used by Maisel and colleagues [ 5], in their landmark paper demonstrating the utility of BNP for diagnosing heart failure in the emergency room, and by Rana and colleagues [ 12].

Finally, there are no data demonstrating the utility of such measurements for diagnosing AKI with dysfunction, which is simply based on Scr modifications or urine output, or for its therapeutic management.

In a meta-analysis of the clinical utility of urinary PCA3 for diagnosing PCa [ 35], sensitivity was 54 82% and specificity was 66 89%, with AUC of 0.66 0.87.

In fact, the most recent British thoracic society guidelines on pleural procedures and thoracic ultrasound stated that "The utility of thoracic ultrasound for diagnosing a pneumothorax is limited in hospital practice due to the ready availability of chest x-rays and conflicting data from published reports" [ 4].