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Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common and costly condition to treat. Economic evaluations of health care often incorporate patient preferences for health outcomes using utilities. The objective of this study was to determine pooled utility-based quality of life (the numerical value attached to the strength of an individual's preference for a specific health outcome) by CKD treatment modality.

Methods and findings: We conducted a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression of peer-reviewed published articles and of PhD dissertations published through 1 December 2010 that reported utility-based quality of life (utility) for adults with late-stage CKD. Studies reporting utilities by proxy (e.g., reported by a patient's doctor or family member) were excluded. In total, 190 studies reporting 326 utilities from over 56,000 patients were analysed. There were 25 utilities from pre-treatment CKD patients, 226 from dialysis patients (haemodialysis, n = 163; peritoneal dialysis, n = 44), 66 from kidney transplant patients, and three from patients treated with non-dialytic conservative care. Using time tradeoff as a referent instrument, kidney transplant recipients had a mean utility of 0.82 (95% CI: 0.74, 0.90). The mean utility was comparable in pre-treatment CKD patients (difference = -0.02; 95% CI: -0.09, 0.04), 0.11 lower in dialysis patients (95% CI: -0.15, -0.08), and 0.2 lower in conservative care patients (95% CI: -0.38, -0.01). Patients treated with automated peritoneal dialysis had a significantly higher mean utility (0.80) than those on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (0.72; p = 0.02). The mean utility of transplant patients increased over time, from 0.66 in the 1980s to 0.85 in the 2000s, an increase of 0.19 (95% CI: 0.11, 0.26). Utility varied by elicitation instrument, with standard gamble producing the highest estimates, and the SF-6D by Brazier et al., University of Sheffield, producing the lowest estimates. The main limitations of this study were that treatment assignments were not random, that only transplant had longitudinal data available, and that we calculated EuroQol Group EQ-5D scores from SF-36 and SF-12 health survey data, and therefore the algorithms may not reflect EQ-5D scores measured directly.

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Conclusions: For patients with late-stage CKD, treatment with dialysis is associated with a significant decrement in quality of life compared to treatment with kidney transplantation. These findings provide evidence-based utility estimates to inform economic evaluations of kidney therapies, useful for policy makers and in individual treatment discussions with CKD patients.

I tried to flash the sbl image without the backup image. Then, transfer the main metaimage through UART and works fine. In that case, you lose the backup functionality. Might be a size issue due to the 4th slot simultaneous flashing... Idk, let's see what you figure out. Thanks for the research.

Sure. They are modified 3D_people_count_68xx.bin meta images of 611.57KB. I'm reading about memory flash sectors, something is telling me that the problem is related to the flash erase process. I may be wrong.

I am happy to share this Discourse admin plugin which adds the names of containers (specified in the main app yml file), to the backups tab of the admin page. This utility plugin is useful for Discourse sys admins who run multi-container configurations and wish to see, at a glance, which container is running.

I am happy to share this first public Discourse admin plugin which adds the names of containers (specified in the main app yml file), to the backups tab of the admin page. This utility plugin is useful for Discourse sys admins who run...

Thanks. But in reality, this utility is probably useful for less than 1% of all Discourse sys admins, since most Discourse instances (a wild guess from the posts on meta) run a single container without a reverse proxy (the standard discourse supported configuration).

Despite the technical advantages of the traditionally used tests for the detection of the causative agents, none can be considered as a standard test alone from the viewpoint of their diagnostic utility. Therefore, several criteria are typically used for diagnostic validity studies because their simultaneous use can increase the sensitivity and specificity [10]. However, there is currently no consensus on the most appropriate combination of tests because mixed results have been reported for performance and validity. In this regard, studies have shown a high variability of results in the application of individual tests or their combinations. Sensitivity values have been reported between 23% [11] and 84.6% [12] for culture, between 44% [13] and 100% [12] for KOH, and between 81% [14] and 91.6% [15] for biopsy. The sensitivity values reported for test combinations are 57% for biopsy and KOH [11] and 98.3% for biopsy and culture [15].

In addition to the high variability in individual results, another limitation of the available studies is the inclusion of small sample sizes. Studies have performed diagnostic evaluations with samples of 40 [12], 50 [13], 63 [11], or 96 [14] individuals who are usually not selected probabilistically. Similarly, most studies present an incomplete diagnostic assessment to the extent that only data on sensitivity, specificity and predictive values are reported and relevant parameters, such as likelihood ratios, the Youden index (J), and the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, among others, are ignored. These limitations can be overcome by a meta-analysis of diagnostic tests. This type of study allows the calculation of these indices via comparison among studies, which shows the parameters related to the diagnostic utility in a greater number and different types of patients and identifies potential sources of heterogeneity of the results, among other advantages.

A database with information extracted from each study was built and analysed with the meta-analysis of studies of evaluations of diagnostic and screening tests (Meta-DiSc) software with a significance level of 0.05. This software uses the Chi-square, DerSimonian-Laird (random effects model [REM]), Cochran-Q, Tau2, and inconsistency (I2) tests for the analysis of heterogeneity of sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios, diagnostic OR, and ROC curve, which are estimated as a combined measure using a random effects model. Additionally, the Epidat program was used to assess the predictive values, Youden index (J), test accuracy, and the prevalence of the disease with each test.

Only 5 studies reported the place of study as follows: one in Iran [20], one in Germany [21], one in Taiwan [22], one in the United States [13], and one in Colombia [23]. All of the studies included in this meta-analysis defined the study population as subjects with clinical suspicion or clinical signs of onychomycosis, and the diagnostic positivity or reference criterion was considered to be any clinical suspicion of onychomycosis and at least one positive test for the condition.

Overall, all of the tests showed low utility when analysed separately. Nail clipping with PAS staining showed the highest likelihood ratios. With a positive likelihood ratio (PLR) of 7.20 and negative likelihood ratio (NLR) of 0.21; the best PLR was reported by Haghani et al. [20] with 845.03 and the best NLR by Jung et al. [27] with 0.07. Similar results were shown for the OR with 44.6, second only to the culture OR with 44.7, allowing the conclusion that these tests are the most useful to discriminate between healthy and infected individuals with no significant differences between them. Similarly, the area under the curve (AUC) for this test was 0.92, suggesting that it was the most valid test; similar results were obtained for the Youden index (J) and efficiency, confirming that nail clipping with PAS staining is the test with the greatest utility of the three tests evaluated.

Comparison of the rate of clinical utility of WGS, WES, and CMA. The rate of clinical utility was the proportion of children tested who received a change in medical or surgical management as a result of genetic disease diagnosis. The pooled rate of clinical utility of WGS and WES were both greater than of CMA. However, there was severe heterogeneity in the WES subgroup. Testing for subgroup differences amongst groups with low to moderate heterogeneity, we found that WGS diagnoses lead to an improved rate of clinical utility over CMA diagnoses

Clinical WES has been much more broadly used than clinical WGS, since WGS was very expensive until recently, and remains ~$6000 per proband. WES examines almost all known exons and several hundred intronic nucleotides at ends of exons, or approximately two percent of the genome. WGS examines all exons and 90% of the genome. Only seven studies have reported the diagnostic utility of clinical WGS in 374 children.24,26,34,35,36,38,46 Meta-analysis did not show the difference in the diagnostic utility of WGS and WES to be significant. Subsequent to the meta-analysis, one very recent study directly compared the diagnostic utility of clinical WGS and WES in 108 subjects. Three patients (3%) received diagnoses by WGS that were completely unidentified by WES.59 Additional studies are needed since the diagnostic utility of WGS and WES are increasing disparately as a result of improved identification of disease-causing copy number and structural variations, repeat expansions, and non-exonic regulatory and splicing variations.34,36,42,57,58,60,61,62,63,64 In one recent study, these increased diagnostic utility by 36%.42 Recent research has shown WGS to have higher analytic sensitivity for copy number and structural variations than CMA, particularly small structural variations (less than 10,000 nucleotides34,36,64), suggesting that WGS may become the single first-line genomic test for etiologic diagnosis of most children suspected to have a genetic disease. However, the published data do not yet support superiority of WGS over WES. 17dc91bb1f