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Assessment of the clinical and analytical performance of the Aptima SARS-CoV-2 assay using the VALCOR protocol.
of 180 clinical samples were tested with an addition of 40 diluted clinical specimens to determine the limit of detection. When compared to the standard comparator assay Aptima had a sensitivity of ...
Acceptability to Healthcare Professionals of Home-Based HPV Self-Sampling for Cervical Screening: A French Qualitative Study Conducted in an Area with Low Access to Health Services
alternative solution (e.g., for women with vaginismus). The health professionals also identified several limitations of the self-sampling kit that will need to be addressed in future screening campaigns ...
Nusinersen treatment significantly improves hand grip strength, hand motor function and MRC sum scores in adult patients with spinal muscular atrophy types 3 and 4
transiently increased at month 6 (p = 0.01), whereas the Peak Expiratory Flow (PEF) did not. The Activity Limitations scale declined significantly prior to start of treatment (p < 0.01) and showed an ...
The use of the permanent sample (eps) to study the returnto- work after cancer. Challenges and opportunities for research
of socially insured Belgian citizens of almost 40 %, five years after the first MOC. Nevertheless, the structure of the EPS presents many limitations to the interpretation and reliability of results. ...
Pregnancy outcome after cervical conisation: A 2nd retrospective cohort study in the Leuven University Hospital.
a significant trend towards smaller cones which was accompanied by a decrease in preterm birth after excisional treatment. The clinician could limit the size of the cone to avoid obstetrical harms, but needs to ...
Role of mucosal high-risk human papillomavirus types in head and neck cancers in central India.
information on the contribution of HPV infection is limited. Here, we evaluated the HPV-attributable fraction in HNC (N = 364) collected in a central region of India. HNC from three different anatomical ...
HPV-based cervical cancer screening- facts, fiction, and misperceptions.
adding cytology to primary screening. However, there is currently limited data on optimal triage strategies for HPV-positive women, a critical component of an HPV-based screening program. There will likely ...
Genotyping for Human Papillomavirus Types 16 and 18 in Women With Minor Cervical Lesions: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
respectively, and was 5% in hrHPV-positive but HPV 16/18-negative women with either ASC-US or LSIL. Limitation: Methodological and technical heterogeneity among studies; insufficient data to assess accuracy of ...
Clinical action measures improve the reliability of feedback on quality of care in diabetes centres: a retrospective cohort study.
clinician’s actions and the longitudinal nature of chronic care are more reliable, although their major limitation is that they require more sophisticated electronic health records. We created a clinical action ...
Triage of ASC-H: A meta-analysis of the accuracy of high-risk HPV testing and other markers to detect cervical precancer.
probability of precancer with a diagnosis of ASC-H, the utility of triage is limited. The usual recommendation for referring women with ASC-H for colposcopy is not altered by a positive triage test, whatever ...