Clinical information does not improve the performance of mathematical models in predicting the outcome of pregnancies of unknown location

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 572-580

  Condous, George ^a,d   Van Calster, Ben ^b   Kirk, Emma ^a   Haider, Zara ^a   Timmerman, Dirk ^c   Van Huffel, Sabine ^b   Bourne, Tom ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering ESAT SCD ^*

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d NEPEAN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

clinical variables; ectopic pregnancy; human chorionic gonadotropin; logistic regression; Pregnancy of unknown location; transvaginal ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANCY OF UNKNOWN LOCATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC;

EID: 34548458464     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.12.015     Document Type: Article

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