diagnostic yield

The likelihood that a test or procedure will provide the information needed to establish a diagnosis

diagnostic yield

The likelihood that a test or procedure will provide the information needed to establish a diagnosis. See Clinical decision making.

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The summary noted that the architectural and cellular patterns generated by IVM are interpretable by pathologists to make differential diagnoses and to identify areas for biopsy, improving diagnostic yield.

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Patients with a low clinical probability of infective endocarditis should not have an echocardiogram performed because it has low positive predictive value and low diagnostic yield, the authors concluded.

Study reveals overuse of echocardiograms for infective endocarditis in children

The integration between AP2 and Face2Gene will allow clinicians who are evaluating patients with Face2Gene to securely pass phenotypic information and insights from facial analysis to AP2 to facilitate increased diagnostic yield of molecular interpretation.

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Conclusion: Extended 24-hour Holter monitoring in children with palpitations was an inexpensive, non-invasive investigation with a reasonably high diagnostic yield in detecting arrhythmias.

Yield of 48-hour Holter monitoring in children with unexplained palpitations and significance of associated symptoms

Determining the diagnostic yield of cryobiopsy is difficult and varies somewhat with the study and the methods, but a figure of ~80% (for both histologic diagnosis and multidisciplinary discussion [MDD] diagnosis) was found in a review of 15 series that included more than 780 patients.

Transbronchial Cryobiopsy in Diffuse Lung Disease: Update for the Pathologist

57) was moderate, the diagnostic yield for the identification of the foramina differed between the diagnostic films and the films with the wire insertion, regardless of the observer.

The accuracy and interobserver reliability of identification of interalveolar foramina in the mandible using dental radiography

Diagnostic yield of cystoscopy in the evaluation of recurrent urinary tract infection in women.

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cardiac disease screening program in the general population of teens and young adults indicate that incorporating a 12-lead ECG alongside history and physical examination not only increases the diagnostic yield for conditions predisposing to sudden cardiac death, but it's actually cost saving, compared with screening by history and physical exam alone, Harshil Dhutia, MD, said at the American Heart Association scientific sessions.

ECG screen for cardiac disease in all youth is cost effective

Background: Due to absence of visible endobronchial target, the diagnostic yield of flexible bronchoscopy for peribronchial lesions has been unsatisfactory.

Endobronchial Ultrasound-guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration Increases the Yield of Transbronchial Lung Biopsy for the Evaluation of Peribronchial Lesions

From 1948 to 1966, the TB diagnostic yield at Chapel Street ranged between 6 to 14 cases per 1 000 radiographs performed.

The mass miniature chest radiography programme in Cape Town, South Africa, 1948-1994: the impact of active tuberculosis case finding

The diagnostic yield as accurate for breast FNAC by TABS as reported by others.

ROLE OF TOLUIDINE BLUE STAINING, TO REDUCE THE NON-DIAGNOSTIC REPORTING OF FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY

The calculated diagnostic yield for our sample population was 43.

Using capsule endoscopy at an academic teaching hospital in west virginia: a descriptive analysis of our 7 year experience and determination of diagnostic yield for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding