Before EBUS-TBNA was available, bronchoscopy yields were not high enough to rule out spread to the mediastinum (at most centers) in patients with suspicious imaging. As a result, surgical exploration ...

Among patients with suspected obstructive CAD, two simple models that include clinical risk factors both outperform the commonly used pretest probability (PTP) model when it comes to predicting the ...

Mathematical analysis and modelling is an important part of infectious disease epidemiology. Application of mathematical models to disease surveillance data can be used to address both scientific ...

For the clinical prediction of probability of pulmonary embolism (PE), the Pisa model is effective, based on a derivation cohort study of 1,100 patients with suspected PE (40% had PE) and a validation ...

Major issues in the implementation of screening for lung cancer by means of low-dose computed tomography (CT) are the definition of a positive result and the management of lung nodules detected on the ...