surrogate marker
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsurrogateandmarker
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surrogate
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈsʌr.ə.ɡət/us/ˈsɝː.ə.ɡət/
replacing someone else or used instead of ...
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marker
noun[C]
uk/ˈmɑː.kər/us/ˈmɑːr.kɚ/
a sign that shows where ...
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(Definition ofsurrogateandmarkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The availability of such asurrogatemarkerwould considerably enhance our abilities to rationally design new therapies directed towards minimal residual disease.
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This procedure meant that we had to rely onsurrogatemarkerchanges for some patient group guideline combinations and on clinical events for others.
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In future clinical trials, evaluation of remyelination will require a reliable and quantifiable myelin marker to be used as asurrogatemarker.
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Race may be asurrogatemarkerfor other, unmeasured, factors such as access to health care.
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A major impediment to successful islet transplantation in humans is the lack of a suitablesurrogatemarkerto detect a rejection response as soon as it occurs.
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Delivery prior to 37 weeks gestation was felt to be asurrogatemarkerfor the severity of the pre-eclampsia.
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However, high-dose diuretic use is likely to be asurrogatemarkerof more advanced cardiac failure and hence explain, at least in part, this poorer outcome.
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As prenatal nutrition is difficult to measure, birth weight has been used as asurrogatemarkerof nutrition in many studies.
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Death from heart disease is the endpoint of interest, but cholesterol is thesurrogatemarker.
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The downstaging is then asurrogatemarkerof efficacy on undetected dissemination, resulting in improved longtime survival compared to the surgery-alone strategy.
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Deficiencies in medical supervision are suggested by several surrogate markers of which the poorly controlled use of neuroleptic medication11,12 is a good example.
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In addition, the third element, outcome, may mislead when surrogate markers are used in place of clinically meaningful outcomes (16).
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For example, surrogate markers of socio-economic status, such as benefit claims, are often used.
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To date, many studies have investigated the role of infection in the development of cerebral palsy by using surrogate markers of infection, such as chorioamnionitis and maternal pyrexia.
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Involvement of health outcomes specialists early in product development allows modeling to identify key endpoints and surrogate markers that most closely predict final outcomes of treatment.
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