prognostic
(noun)
a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold
Examples of prognostic in the following topics:
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Sources of Social Change
- Prognostic frame: the movement organization frames the desirable solution to the problem
- The prognostic frame is the desired solution - what people think will work to change the situation.
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Confounding
- Confounding by indication occurs when prognostic factors cause bias, such as biased estimates of treatment effects in medical trials.
- Controlling for known prognostic factors may reduce this problem, but it is always possible that a forgotten or unknown factor was not included or that factors interact complexly.
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Cancer Proteomics
- (B) Prognostic - To forecast how aggressive a condition is, as in the case of determining a patient's ability to fare in the absence of treatment.
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Disease Diagnosis
- Diagnostic tests can also be used to provide prognostic information on people with established disease.
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Social Movement Theories
- Prognostic frame: the movement organization frames what is the desirable solution to the problem