Modern medicine thrives on the ideal of specific diseases, and specificity has revolutionized thinking in clinical practice (e.g., psychiatry) as well as biomedical research (e.g., neuroscience). Different notions of specificity exist (e.g., clinical, biological, and behavioral). Behavioral specificity takes on new meaning in light of recent neuroimaging and genetic findings. Drawing on the met...

emergency physicians, like other specialists, are faced with different patients and various situations each day. they have to use ancillary diagnostic tools like laboratory tests and imaging studies to be able to manage them. in most cases, numerous tests are available. tests with the least error and the most accuracy are more desirable. the power of a test to separate patients from healthy one...

abstract background the aim of this study was to evaluate sensitivity and specificity of mediastinal sonography, and compared with ct, in detection of anterior mediastinal neoplasms. materials and methods the sonography with convex probes (5.0 and 7.5 mhz) was done prospectively for 34 patients (from 2 to 25 years old) with mediastinal mass. the results were compared with the results of contras...

It has been estimated that at least half of all ERP (enterprise resource planning packages) implementations fail to meet expectations or achieve estimated benefits. In many cases, the misalignments between ERP features and organizational requirements have resulted in costly workarounds. In extreme cases, such misalignments have even contributed to project abandonment and organizational failure....

OBJECTIVES Capsule colonoscopy is an additional screening modality for colorectal cancer. Second-generation capsule colonoscopy (CC2) may have improved efficacy in the detection of colon adenomas as compared with prior devices. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of CC2 in the detection of polyps in symptomatic and screening patients in the USA. DESIGN Prospective, multi...

OBJECTIVE In recent decades, there has been increased interest in tools for assessing and improving the communication skills of general practice trainees. Recently, experts in the field rated the older Maas Global (MG) and the newer Common Ground (CG) instruments among the better communication skills assessment tools. This report seeks to establish their cross-validity. METHODS Eighty trainee...

Background: It has been established that the level of some inflammatory cytokines increases in celiac disease (CD) and non-celiac gluten sensitivity (NCGS) in comparison with healthy subjects. Therefore, the primary interest in our research was proposing an accurate tool to diagnose patients with CD and NCGS from healthy individuals in an Iranian population. Methods: The serum samples were exam...

Hydatidosis, caused by the larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus, is one of the most important zoonosis with worldwide distribution. As its diagnosis by clinical symptoms and scanning alone is difficult and confusing, we designed the present study to achieve a sensitive and simple diagnostic method for epidemiological studies. Sera (250 samples) were collected from 90 cases of hydatidosis pro...

Several studies have examined the usefulness of the Warrington Recognition Memory Test-Words as a measure to detect suspect effort, although samples have generally been small and/or comprised of simulators rather than "real world" credible and noncredible patients. The current study examined the Warrington Recognition Memory Test-Words total score and response time of "real world" noncredible p...

This study examined the utility of a screening battery developed by Reitan & Wolfson, 2006 for predicting neuropsychological impairment on the Halstead-Reitan neuropsychological test battery for adults. Using archival neuropsychological data from 69 litigants seen in a private practice setting, the Pearson correlation between the General Neuropsychological Deficit Scale (GNDS) score and the tot...