The diagnosis should be estab- lished by the Paul-Bunnell blood test or by culture of the Epstein-Barr virus from a throat swab specimen. Antibiotics do not help in the management of this condition and in particular, the use of amoxicillin or ampicillin can prompt an unpleasant rash. ...
The proteomic signatures that we report have screening metrics that were comparable with, or exceeded, those of blood tests currently used as diagnostic tests (for other diseases). Previous studies in a small number of diseases have investigated the predictive7,11,12,13 or prognostic20 potential ...
although older US data and some other countries such as Italy contain ICD-9 codes (CDC, 1998), and some countries use other coding systems, such as Read codes in the United Kingdom (NHS, 2017). These diagnosis codes represent justification for billing for the procedure(s) on the claim...
DNA samples (in almost all cases, obtained from blood) were genotyped using the iPLEX Mass Array platform at four genotyping centres (Additional file 1 Table S2); the iPLEX included 26 SNPs as part of a larger study. All centres included at least 2% of the samples in duplicate, no templat...
Finally, in comparing against clinical screening there are certain variables not measured in these biobanks that preclude a complete comparison, including of some widely used low-cost tests (e.g., fecal occult blood samples in colon cancer) and more intensive screening tools (e.g., CT ...
What is the value of routinely testing full blood count, electrolytes and urea, and pulmonary function tests before elective surgery in patients with no apparent clinical indication and in subgroups of patients with common comorbidities: a systematic review of the clinical and cost-effective literature...
(age, sex, and education), medical (self-reported high blood pressure, depression, obesity using measured body mass index (BMI), atrial fibrillation (AF), total cholesterol and both high- and low-density lipoprotein, traumatic brain injury (TBI), left ventricular hypertrophy, chronic kidney ...
There are currently three units in the UK offering this surgery for National Health Service (NHS) patients. Prior to surgery trans women will have had extensive evaluation, including blood tests, advice on smoking, alcohol and obesity, and psychological/psychiatric evaluation. They usually begin to...
All tests of significance were 2-sided, and we accounted for multiple testing for the primary analysis using the false discovery rate, which equated to P < .03.20 We used this same threshold for statistical significance in all subsequent analyses. To investigate the broader role of physical ...
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