Sentence examples for utility of a positive from inspiring English sources

The utility of a positive FDG-PET remains uncertain in this setting.

The clinical utility of a positive CTCA was moderate in women at low to intermediate PTP and in men of low PTP of CAD.

In our population we found that the clinical utility of a positive CTCA was high (>90 %) in men at intermediate PTP of CAD and further diagnostic testing was not necessary.

Second, only one of the studies is prospective in design [ 26]; thus more studies are warranted to evaluate the clinical everyday utility of a single positive result.

It has the advantage of being invariant under transformations of the utility function that preserve the preference relation that it represents (i.e. it is invariant under multiplication of the utility with a positive constant and addition of an arbitrary constant).

For most committee members (8 out of 9), "Goal of healthcare - utility" had a positive impact on the appraisal of tramadol, since relieving pain is aligned with the goals of healthcare in general and the WSIB in particular.

For a given set of such preferences, he generates a class of utility functions, each a positive linear transformation of the other (i.e. of the form U1 = aU2 + b, where a > 0), and a unique probability function.

Multiplication of such a utility by a positive, finite probability (less than 1) yields another, smaller infinite number.

We also calculated two other common measures that can show the diagnostic utility of an instrument: the positive predictive potential (PPP) and the negative predictive potential (NPP).

Some 87% of the electric utilities have a positive or neutral ratings outlook.

The data also validated the utility of DAPT as a positive control for inducing increased YFP signal (maximal DAPT/DMSO ratio of >5.5) and to a lesser extent for RFP (maximal DAPT/DMSO ratio of >1.25, see Figure 1E).