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Understanding diagnostic error: looking beyond diagnostic accuracy

Diagnosis, 2015
Abstract Whether a diagnosis is correct or incorrect is often used to determine diagnostic performance despite there being no valid measure of diagnostic accuracy. In this paper we draw on our experience of conducting research on diagnostic error and discuss some of the challenges that a focus on accuracy brings to this field of research.
Jane, Heyhoe, Rebecca, Lawton, Gerry, Armitage, Mark, Conner, Neil H, Ashurst   +4 more
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Bethesda Classification of Thyroid Nodules at a Kenyan Hospital: A Retrospective Study

The Annals of African Surgery
Background: The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology (TBSRTC) was developed to standardize the reporting of thyroid nodule fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) results.
Aurelia Brazeal, Adili Wobenjo, Chege Macharia, Morgan Otido, Rosemary Kamau, Jana MacLeod   +5 more
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Predicting Diagnostic Accuracy [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2007
To the Editor: The report by Nendaz et al.1 on diagnostic accuracy highlighted the importance of previous exposure to similar cases and generating hypotheses early in the encounter. However, I was surprised the authors did not reference the descriptive article by Kassirer and Gorry2 in which similar conclusions were reached.
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Accuracy of four rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for human leptospirosis diagnosis in Indonesia

Microbiology Spectrum
Leptospirosis is an endemic zoonotic disease with protean clinical manifestations caused by pathogenic spirochetes of the Leptospira genus. The microscopic agglutination test (MAT) is the gold standard for leptospirosis diagnosis and can only be ...
Farida Handayani, Endah Tri Widanarti, Citra W. Kusuma, Ristiyanto Ristiyanto, Amin Soebandrio, Muhammad Hussein Gasem   +5 more
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Faster magnetic resonance imaging in emergency room patients with right lower quadrant pain and suspected acute appendicitis [PDF]

, 2018
Purpose: Emergency Departments (ED) are becoming busier, with a resultant increase in the number of imaging referrals. The purpose of this study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of an abbreviated two sequence magnetic resonance (MR) protocol for ...
Ali, Ismail T., Chang, Silvia, Khosa, Faisal, Klass, Darren, McLaughlin, Patrick, Mian, Memoona, Nicolaou, Savvas   +6 more
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Spatiotemporal and quantitative analyses of phosphoinositides – fluorescent probe—and mass spectrometry‐based approaches

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Fluorescent probes allow dynamic visualization of phosphoinositides in living cells (left), whereas mass spectrometry provides high‐sensitivity, isomer‐resolved quantitation (right). Their synergistic use captures complementary aspects of lipid signaling. This review illustrates how these approaches reveal the spatiotemporal regulation and quantitative
Hiroaki Kajiho, Shin Morioka, Junko Sasaki, Takehiko Sasaki   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of delirium screening tools in geriatric medical inpatients: a diagnostic test accuracy study [PDF]

, 2016
Introduction: screening all unscheduled older adults for delirium is recommended in national guidelines, but there is no consensus on how to perform initial assessment.
Burns, Jennifer, Cunnington, AnneLouise, Evans, Jonathan, Hendry, Kirsty, Miller, Hazel, Quinn, Terence J., Scortichini, Valeria, Stott, David J.   +7 more
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Methylation biomarkers can distinguish pleural mesothelioma from healthy pleura and other pleural pathologies

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
We developed and validated a DNA methylation–based biomarker panel to distinguish pleural mesothelioma from other pleural conditions. Using the IMPRESS technology, we translated this panel into a clinically applicable assay. The resulting two classifier models demonstrated excellent performance, achieving high AUC values and strong diagnostic accuracy.
Janah Vandenhoeck, Nele De Meulenaere, Thomas Vanpoucke, Joe Ibrahim, Dieter Peeters, Suresh Krishan Yogeswaran, Wen Wen, Paul Van Schil, Jeroen M. H. Hendriks, Jo Raskin, Jan van Meerbeeck, Guy Van Camp, Ken Op de Beeck   +12 more
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Sources of bias in diagnostic accuracy studies

Journal of Applied Hematology, 2015
Diagnostic accuracy studies are known to have different sources of bias. Usually, those biases are not stated clearly in papers and lead to disruption in conclusion.
Areej Abdul Ghani Al Fattani, Abdulla Aljoudi   +1 more
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A Comparative Study for 2D and 3D Computer-aided Diagnosis Methods for Solitary Pulmonary Nodules [PDF]

, 2008
Many computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) methods, including 2D and 3D approaches, have been proposed for solitary pulmonary nodules (SPNs). However, the detection and diagnosis of SPNs remain challenging in many clinical circumstances.
Lin, Chen-Liang, Nagurka, Mark L., Wang, Jen-Feng, Wu, Ming-Ting, Yeh, Chinson, Yen, Chen-Wen   +5 more
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