PURPOSE: Acute pain occurs in over 50% of hospitalized children. The accuracy of this diagnosis has been underexplored in the literature, as has the role of training to implement pain assessment. This study analyzed the ...

Speech accuracy is an indicator for evaluating the language of children with cochlear implant (CI). Verifying the teaching that increases this accuracy and how efficiency measures can be adopted are relevant questions. The ...

Introduction: The pad test is an assessment tool for urinary incontinence (UI) severity classification and therapeutic response monitoring. However, the reliability and reproducibility of this test have been questioned. ...

Objective. Since the first data from a patient with colorectal adenocarcinoma are obtained by biopsy, this study evaluated the accuracy of diagnosis by biopsy as compared with the diagnostic potential of the surgical ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of imputation in a Gyr population using two medium- density panels (Bos taurus - Bos indicus) and to test whether the inclusion of the Nellore breed increases the imputation ...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate, across multiple sample sizes, the degree that data-driven methods result in (1) optimal cutoffs different from population optimal cutoff and (2) bias in accuracy estimates. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: ...