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Translation and validation of the Korean
confusion assessment method for the
intensive care unit
Eun Young Heo, Byoung-Jo Lee, Bong-Jin Hahm, Eun Hee Song, Han-A Lee, Chul-Gyu Yoo, Young ... limited and usually underdiagnosed by physicians. The Confusion
Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) is one of the most widely use...
... from that of a random population, and they may have
a tendency to exaggerate self-perceived severity.
The repeatability of the FAS index was excellent, as shown by
the CCC, and the Bland-Altman ... deficits or
psychiatric symptoms that would preclude them from complet-
ing the questionnaire.
The study was approved by the Ethics Committees of the Pol-
ytechnic Univers...
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State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of
Animal Virology of Ministry of Agriculture, Lanzhou Veterinary Research
Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural ... demonstrated that the sensitivity and
specificity of the ELISA test were higher than IFA
(Table 1). The negative and positive serum determina-
tions were 8...
... sensitivity, thus a HPV-32 type specific PCR
assay was developed and optimized.
Sensitivity, specificity, and reproducibility are critical to
the development of any new assay. The sensitivity of the
HPV-32 ... standard,
the HPV-32 specific PCR assay has a sensitivity of 95.8% and 88.9% by sample and subject,
respectively, and specificity was 87.8% and 58.8% by sample...
... preparations may consist of one or the other
variants, there is a nee d for rapid and simple assays to
identify variants for the purpose of both commercial
production and quality control. Whereas today’smeth-
ods ... identify variants for quality cont rol.
Methods: Four methods were developed and tested for their applicability in differentiating the two species. These...
... fracture;
these were the only injury type to show a significant
effect for a particular injury type on the likelihood of
Palmer et al. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine ... improving the
accuracy of assigned maps was considered, both for the
dictionary map and the complementary map, by identi-
fying particular codes or injury types wh...
... the
Rasch analyses) were candidates for exclusion. However,
it was the aim to include a reasonable spread of items in
terms of the degree of severity they represented. The logit
severity of the ... ran
the analysis to identify items for the valuation exercise,
analysed the validation data and contributed to the writ-
ing of the manuscript. JB designed an...
... medicine is
the most affordable and accessible system of health
care for the majority of the African rural population,”
the Organization for African Unity (now the African
Union) declared the years ... Organization (WHO) and other
official groups have acknowledge the potential effective-
ness of T H as prim ary caregivers and the potential effi-
cacy of the...
... Supply) into the com-
mon hepatic artery beyond the region of origin of the
LGA and pull ing them back to select the LGA; and (3)
creatingasideholeinthetopoftheshepherd’ s hook
catheter and trying ... hours.
Therefore, using the microcatheter, we selected the
RGA that arose from the proper hepatic artery. Accord-
ing to the RGA angiography, the anastomosis from th...
... faster than the time required for the
ELISA and NT assays, and the results can be read
directly by the naked eye. Therefore, the ICS test is a
high specific and sensitive assay for the rapid and repro-
ducible ... consistency ratio of the positive number of ICS to the positive number
of ELISA is 85.37% and that of the negative number of ICS to the n...