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Example sentences for: uncertainty

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To assess if uncertainty regarding a clinical question exists, researchers should evaluate the totality of pre-existing knowledge: if we already knew that one treatment is superior to another, nothing new could be learned and we would unnecessarily expose our patients to already known inferior treatment by performing a new trial.
This may be a significant uncertainty in the analysis, but the current state of the scientific literature does not allow for a region-specific estimation of health benefits.
Uncertainty may be especially problematic in conditions such as sepsis, in which mortality is high, and clinicians strongly want to do everything possible.
As an example of a calculation combining many sources of uncertainty, we use a simplified version of Mead et al.
If, because of their source, there is any uncertainty concerning the identity of the organisms, it is advisable to have them examined by a taxonomic specialist to confirm their identification.