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Some 99.3% of patients with positive chest X-ray results received antibiotics. Despite fewer symptoms and negative chest X-ray results, a significant portion (68.75%) of patients with negative ...

Higher clinical severity was seen in patients with positive vs negative CR, with longer-lasting symptoms. (HealthDay News) — Many general practitioners prescribe antibiotics for suspected ...

Clinicians often face uncertainty about whether they can rely on a negative chest x-ray (CXR) to rule out pneumonia in a child, even when other clinical signs and symptoms may have raised that ...

The patient reports having a negative chest x-ray two years ago and is currently set to begin working in a hospital setting with possible TB exposure. —TYSHA S. HOLMES, PA-C, Fort Jackson ...

A chest X-ray can usually detect active tuberculosis ... They also have a specificity of 89–96%, which is how often a negative test result is accurate. Doctors may use skin and blood tests ...

The researchers again found that model performance depended upon text markers when they swapped written text on pairs of images (one COVID-19-positive and one COVID-19-negative chest X-ray). The ...

As an adjunct, CT scans of the chest and chest X-rays also play a role in the timely detection and management of contagious infections, especially when RT-PCR returns a negative result.

More than two-thirds of patients with negative chest X-ray results prescribed antibiotics. (HealthDay News) — Many general practitioners prescribe antibiotics for suspected community-acquired ...