The diagnosis of male infertility: an analysis of the evidence to support the development of global WHO guidance—challenges and future research opportunities

CLR Barratt, L Björndahl, CJ De Jonge… - Human reproduction …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Herein, we describe the consensus guideline methodology, summarize the
evidence-based recommendations we provided to the World Health Organization (WHO) for …

The Canadian laboratory initiative on pediatric reference intervals: a CALIPER white paper

K Adeli, V Higgins, K Trajcevski… - Critical reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Laboratory investigations provide physicians with objective data to aid in disease diagnosis,
clinical decision making, and patient follow up. Clinical interpretation of laboratory test …

A back propagation neural network model for accurately predicting the removal efficiency of ammonia nitrogen in wastewater treatment plants using different biological …

SZ Zhang, S Chen, H Jiang - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Accurately predicting the water quality of treated water from a water treatment plant (WWTP)
based on the obtained operating database is of great significance. However, it is difficult for …

Distribution of semen examination results 2020–a follow up of data collated for the WHO semen analysis manual 2010

MJ Campbell, F Lotti, E Baldi, S Schlatt, MPR Festin… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background It is now 11 years since publication of the WHO 2010 guidelines for semen
assessment values, and it is critical to determine whether they are still valid and/or whether …

Upper-extremity functional performance tests: reference values for overhead athletes

D Borms, A Cools - International journal of sports medicine, 2018 - thieme-connect.com
This study aimed to provide an age, gender and sport-based normative database for three
functional shoulder tests: Y Balance Test–Upper Quarter (YBT-UQ), Closed Kinetic Chain …

Current smartphone-assisted point-of-care cancer detection: Towards supporting personalized cancer monitoring

LTP Le, AHQ Nguyen, HTT Ngo, X Wang… - TrAC Trends in …, 2024 - Elsevier
With the rising incidence of cancer-related mortality, new enabling technologies are
necessary to offer comprehensive molecular profiles of patients in order to assist clinicians …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of hematologic and biochemical parameters for healthy commercial pigs in China

S Zhang, B Yu, Q Liu, Y Zhang, M Zhu, L Shi, H Chen - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary It is well known that hematologic and biochemical reference intervals (RIs)
play a major role in defining the health state of an animal. China is home to over 50% of the …

[HTML][HTML] Physiology and its importance for reference intervals

KA Sikaris - The Clinical Biochemist Reviews, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Reference intervals are ideally defined on apparently healthy individuals and should be
distinguished from clinical decision limits that are derived from known diseased patients …

Bilirubin as a predictor of diseases of civilization. Is it time to establish decision limits for serum bilirubin concentrations?

L Vitek - Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 2019 - Elsevier
Bilirubin is among the most potent of the endogenous antioxidants. Data developed over the
last three decades have convincingly demonstrated the protective effects of mildly elevated …

[HTML][HTML] Machine learning models for predicting severe COVID-19 outcomes in hospitals

P Wendland, V Schmitt, J Zimmermann, L Häger… - Informatics in medicine …, 2023 - Elsevier
The aim of this observational retrospective study is to improve early risk stratification of
hospitalized Covid-19 patients by predicting in-hospital mortality, transfer to intensive care …