background: the present study assesses independent predictors of clinically important traumatic brain injury (citbi) in order to design a prognostic rule for identification of high risk children with mild head injury. materials and methods: in a retrospective cross-sectional study, 3,199 children with mild traumatic brain injury (tbi) brought to emergency ward of three hospitals in tehran, iran...

Techniques for using Gaussian QCD sum-rules to predict hadronic resonance properties are developed for single-resonance and two-resonance phenomenological models, and criteria are developed for determining which of these models is required for analyzing a particular hadronic channel. The vector current sum-rule coupled to the ρ meson is shown to be consistent with a single resonance model, and ...

OBJECTIVE To derive and validate a clinical rule for predicting pneumonic infiltrates in adult patients with acute respiratory illness. DESIGN Prevalence studies in three settings. SETTING Emergency departments of the University of Illinois Hospital at Chicago, the University of Nebraska Medical Center at Omaha, and the Medical College of Virginia at Richmond. PATIENTS Symptoms, signs, co...

Detection of anti-hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) antibodies may yield a high frequency of false-positive results in people at low risk. To date, no clinical rule had been developed to predict viremia in HCV-seropositive patients. Therefore, we aimed to generate a prediction rule on the basis of clinical and serologic data, which can be used in outpatient care. We selected 114 seropositive patient...

BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines for dementia do not recommend routine neuroimaging but vary in their recommended clinical prediction rules to identify patients who should undergo neuroimaging for potentially reversible causes of dementia. METHODS Using a MEDLINE search supplemented by other strategies, we identified studies from January 1, 1983, through December 31, 1998, that evaluat...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to update and validate a prediction rule for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalization in preterm infants 33-35 weeks gestational age (WGA). STUDY DESIGN The RISK study consisted of 2 multicenter prospective birth cohorts in 41 hospitals. Risk factors were assessed at birth among healthy preterm infants 33-35 WGA. All hospitalizations for respiratory tract ...

Reliable prediction methods are an essential part of any powerful decision support system in medicine. They are crucial to support medical decision making with respect to the prognosis for patients. This paper reports on the development of cluster and rule based prediction methods to forecast cardiovascular risk of hemodialysis patients. The particular focus was on the prediction of the interve...

The risk assessment for developing end-stage renal disease (ESRD) remains unclear in patients with lupus nephritis (LN). The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a prediction rule for estimating the individual risk of ESRD in patients with LN using clinical and pathological data.A total of 599 patients with LN diagnosed by renal biopsy between June 2009 and June 2014 in West China ...

Recently, the use of machine learning (ML) algorithms has proven to be of great practical value in solving a variety of software engineering problems including software prediction, for example, cost and defect processes. An important advantage of machine learning over statistical analysis as a modelling technique lies in the fact that the interpretation of production rules is more straightforwa...