(HealthDay News) – A variation measure, estimated from an automated algorithm of the grayscale variation within a mammogram, correlates with the risk of breast cancer as strongly or more so than ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There is little uniformity in the way physicians measure disease activity in patients with juvenile idiopathic ...

Sequencing is becoming an increasingly valuable tool in biology due to the universal importance of nucleic acids in living systems and the richness of the data it produces 1–3. The system under ...

Repeatability is the measurement of variation when a process is done multiple times. Precision is the means of reducing ...

The National Quality Forum issued guidance on reducing unnecessary variations in healthcare quality measures, with the aim of making measurement more consistent and useful in enhancing patient care. A ...

Background. Health adjusted life years (HALYs) are used for estimating burden of disease and as outcomes in cost-effectiveness analyses of medical care and public health interventions. Objectives. The ...

A new study by the IFCC‑IOF Committee for Bone Metabolism shows large within- and between-assay variation for ß-CTX measurement; until harmonization is achieved, proposes measuring ß-CTX by the same ...

Sexual minority groups report relatively more mental health issues than heterosexual people, and identifying sexual minorities through efficient survey questions helps bridge mental health disparities ...