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Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests
2015As technology advances, diagnostic tests continue to improve and each year, we are presented with new alternatives to standard procedures. Given the plethora of diagnostic alternatives, diagnostic tests must be evaluated to determine their place in the diagnostic armamentarium. The first step involves determining the accuracy of the test, including the
John M, Fardy, Brendan J, Barrett
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Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 2000
The results of cardiac tests must always be interpreted through the lens of pretest probabilities created by the history and the physical examination. Tests should be chosen with a clear diagnostic and prognostic purpose in mind. A clear understanding of the relationship between the history and physical examination and more technologic diagnostic ...
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The results of cardiac tests must always be interpreted through the lens of pretest probabilities created by the history and the physical examination. Tests should be chosen with a clear diagnostic and prognostic purpose in mind. A clear understanding of the relationship between the history and physical examination and more technologic diagnostic ...
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Diagnostic Tests and Procedures
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1981Excerpt To the editor: The technologic advances of the past several decades have presented practicing physicians with many diagnostic tests and procedures.
Richard P. Lofgren, Terry W. Crowson
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The interpretation of diagnostic tests
Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 1999Laboratory diagnostic tests are central in the practice of modern medicine. Common uses include screening a specific population for evidence of disease and confirming or ruling out a tentative diagnosis in an individual patient. The interpretation of a diagnostic test result depends on both the ability of the test to distinguish diseased from ...
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Evaluation and Diagnostic Testing
Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2020The evaluation of cardiovascular disease in pregnancy is challenging due to overlaps between cardiac and normal pregnancy symptomatology, as well as concerns about the potential impact, if any, of imaging studies on fetal development. We discuss here an approach to the evaluation of the pregnant cardiac patient and review the safety and utility of ...
Cynthia C. Taub +3 more
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Diagnostic tests for choreoacanthocytosis
Neurology, 1991Two patients with striatal atrophy and a clinical syndrome consistent with choreoacanthocytosis had normal dried blood smears but their red cells demonstrated an abnormal sensitivity to various conditions known to promote discocyte-echinocyte transformation.
W. J. Koroshetz +6 more
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Diagnostic Tests in Alcoholism
British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other Drugs, 1972SummaryThe biochemical, physiological and psychological features of metabolic and endocrine disorders prevalent in alcoholics, in conjunction with reactions to carbohydrate, amino acid and nicotinic acid tolerance tests, suggest a means of distinguishing the alcoholism from heavy drinking.Case and family histories, considered in relation to genetic ...
J. G. Benjafield, L. F. Rutter
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The Michigan alcoholism screening test: the quest for a new diagnostic instrument.
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1971The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST), devised to provide a consistent, quantifiable, structured interview instrument to detect alcoholism, consists of 25 questions that can be rapidly administered.
M. Selzer
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Veterinary Parasitology, 2007
Interpretation of the result of a diagnostic test depends not only on the actual test result(s) but also on information external to this result, namely the test's sensitivity and specificity. This external information (also called prior information) must be combined with the data to yield the so-called updated, posterior estimates of the true ...
Lesaffre, E. +2 more
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Interpretation of the result of a diagnostic test depends not only on the actual test result(s) but also on information external to this result, namely the test's sensitivity and specificity. This external information (also called prior information) must be combined with the data to yield the so-called updated, posterior estimates of the true ...
Lesaffre, E. +2 more
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Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 1994
You are back where we put you in the previous article1 on diagnostic tests in this series on how to use the medical literature: in the library studying an article that will guide you in interpreting ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) lung scans.
Roman Jaeschke, G. Guyatt, D. Sackett
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You are back where we put you in the previous article1 on diagnostic tests in this series on how to use the medical literature: in the library studying an article that will guide you in interpreting ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) lung scans.
Roman Jaeschke, G. Guyatt, D. Sackett
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