The current study included 31 neutropenic cancer patients with fever, not responding to antibiotics (they were attending the outpatient clinics or were inpatient in the Hematology department of the Medical Research Institute hospital and Oncology department of Alexandria Main University hospital) during a 12 month period. Full written consents were taken from patients enrolled in the study.
As there was a fixed strategy for the management of neutropenic cancer patients involving the subsequent empirical administration of antibiotics and/or antifungal drugs, this led to difficulties in the selection of cases to reach the goal of the study. Accordingly, all patients were pyrexial, receiving antibiotics and 9 patients (29%) were receiving
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Step-one Applied Biosystems cycler was used. An aliquot of 7 μL of the PCR products was run on a 2% agarose gel. In a second step, DNA was spotted manually on LCD chips and hybridization was performed according to the instruction manual. According to the manufacturer, the array is able to discriminate between 25 different fungal species or species clusters. For scanning and final analysis a combination of a transmission light scanner and image analysis software supplied by the manufacturer software supplied by the manufacturer was used.
2.3.Method of Statistical analysis: (15) Statistical analysis was done using IBM SPSS statistics program version 21 Categorical variables were described by frequency, percentage. Chisquare test was used to study significant association between two categorical variables. Fischer exact test and Montecarlo test were used if more than 20% of excepted cell counts < 5 at 0.05 level of significance.
Kappa measure of agreement was done to detect statistical significant agreement between two techniques (e.g blood culture and microarray) at 0.05 level of significance. McNemar test was done to detect statistical significant difference in the proportion of positive and negative results between blood culture and microarray.
3. Results The study group included 19 (61.3%) females and 12 (38.7%) males. Their age ranged from one year to 60 years.
The age groups that were tested ranged from 17-35. To make a more accurate representation of the levels they could have broken down the age groups to a smaller range. If they had done that, the overall results then could have been separated by age as well as gender.
In the study, the between-groups design and the cross-sectional design were used for research. There were 243 participants between the ages of 18 and 39, and the majority were females and Caucasians. The average age was about 21 years old.
16. Which nursing diagnosis is most appropriate for a patient experiencing myelosuppression secondary to chemotherapy for cancer treatment?
The analysis of the data was done by employing the following statistical techniques which were chosen only after the investigator found them to be most appropriate and compatible to the data. Each statistical method is based upon its own specific assumptions regarding the nature of the sample, its universe and research conditions. These factors were considered in advance. Following statistical measures were
The results are as follows: the mean age of the sexual minority youth was 16.24 years old, female sexual minority youth were
The degree of freedoms was 9 and the significance level was 0.05. For these conditions, the chi-square value must be above 16.92. The test statistic provided no convincing evidence that the
1The purpose of this paper is to perform a chi-square analysis after watching the assigned video. Data taken from a given table will be entered on the SPSS data set with intend to obtain an output. The cross-tabulation table will be highlighted in the output document. Then the highlighted output will be submitted to the instructor.
Flow Diagram Homework Assignment Name: Preetam Ganti Using the table below, explain the purpose of each of the steps of the Experimental Flow Diagram (Figure 1 from your lab manual – it is provided on the next page) for answering the two research questions guiding this laboratory investigation: 1. Is the bacterial contamination at these three farms due to the same plasmid or different plasmids? 2. What is the frequency of tetracycline resistant bacteria in the beef farm cultures?
status. The approximated, average age of the studied women was 35 years old. More than half of
| Based on explicit knowledge and this can be easy and fast to capture and analyse.Results can be generalised to larger populationsCan be repeated – therefore good test re-test reliability and validityStatistical analyses and interpretation are
there is a new study that showed some interesting results in patients treated with monotherapy of
Neutropenia happens the majority of the patients with cancer who are receiving chemotherapy treatment. Also, it is a common side effect in the patients with a type of cancer called leukemia.
This was followed by biochemical tests which are quicker ways to identify the sub classes of the organisms. The results obtained are reliable. it is also an important step in the screening of infectious agents in clinical specimens such as direct smears from a patient.
The objective of this chapter is to describe the procedures used in the analysis of the data and present the main findings. It also presents the different tests performed to help choose the appropriate model for the study. The chapter concludes by providing thorough statistical interpretation of the findings.
The instrument used is questionnaire and chi-square is used to test the relationship between the variables, which has proven that there is a