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Demystifying EQA statistics and reports.
feedback tool in External Quality Assessment (EQA). Their main role is to score laboratories for their performance in an EQA round. The most common scores that apply to quantitative data are Q- and Z-scores ...
The Assessment of African Swine Fever Virus Risk to Belgium Early 2014, using the Quick and Semiquantitative Pandora Screening Protocol.
posed by ASF to Belgium early 2014. A set of integrated risk scores was calculated within the Pandora framework. Experts scored the questions and uncertainty levels in the Pandora modules individually, ...
Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry for Combined Species Identification and Drug Sensitivity Testing in Mycobacteria.
Databases searches returned 90.4% correct species-level identifications, which increased to 98.6% when score thresholds were lowered to 1.65. In conclusion, the MBT-ASTRA technology holds promise to ...
Decision criteria for MALDI-TOF MS-based identification of filamentous fungi using commercial and in-house reference databases
criteria, have been developed for mold and dermatophyte identification. Currently, the most widely used approach is Bruker technology, although no consensus concerning the log(score) threshold has been ...
Neonatal thyroid-stimulating hormone concentration and psychomotor development at preschool age.
concentration. Socioeconomic, parental and child potential confounding factors were measured through a self-administered questionnaire. RESULTS: TSH level was not significantly associated with total motor score ...
The correlation between antimutagenic activity and total phenolic content of extracts of 31 plant species with high antioxidant activity.
antimutagenesis, a 20% decrease in the number of revertants must be obtained in order to score the extract as active. Psoralea pinnata L. had the highest percentage antimutagenicity recorded in this study (76.67 and ...
Pediatric diabetes centres rated parental responsibility and family support as most important determinants of HbA1c using a 17-item questionnaire: a pilot study
psychosocial factors of which PDC s thought that they can positively or negatively influence the level of HbA1c in type 1 diabetes during childhood and adolescence. The factors that PDC s scored highly are ...
Nicotine Dependence and Urinary Nicotine, Cotinine and Hydroxycotinine Levels in Daily Smokers.
smoking frequency are critical factors for smoking cessation. The aims of this study are (1) to determine if nicotine dependence Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND) scores are associated with ...
Clinical action measures improve the reliability of feedback on quality of care in diabetes centres: a retrospective cohort study.
TM, 60-70 % of the patients received good care. This percentage increased significantly using the CAM (+5 %, p < 0.001). At the centre level, the CAM was associated with a higher median score, and ...
Adverse obstetric outcomes after local treatment for cervical preinvasive and early invasive disease according to cone depth: systematic review and meta-analysis.
outcomes comprised low birth weight, admission to neonatal intensive care, stillbirth, APGAR scores, and perinatal mortality. RESULTS: 71 studies were included (6 338 982 participants: 65 082 treated/6 292 ...