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Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy

Principles and Practice of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis, 2021
M. Pammi, Y. Takwoingi
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Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: III. How to Use an Article About a Diagnostic Test: B. What Are the Results and Will They Help Me In Caring for My Patients?

, 1994
CLINICAL SCENARIO You are back where we put you in the previous article1on 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.
R. Jaeschke, G. Guyatt, D. Sackett
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Diagnostic test for dementias

Evidence Based Mental Health, 2014
This is the second of a series of evidence-based case conferences. The main aim of this new series of papers is help clinicians learn and apply the evidence-based approach in their own clinical practices. The clinical question that we seek to solve in each of this series emanates from a real clinical case.
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. . . And a Diagnostic Test Was Performed

New England Journal of Medicine, 2005
To the Editor: At a recent case conference with a distinguished visiting professor, a fellow in allergy and immunology presented the case of an infant with diarrhea; an unusual rash (“alligator skin”); multiple immunologic abnormalities, including low T-cell function; tissue eosinophilia (of the gastric mucosa) as well as peripheral eosinophilia; and ...
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Diagnostic Tests for Urticaria

Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America, 2014
Clinical diagnosis is made essentially by the characteristics of skin eruptions and detailed history taking. Particular, but not general blood examinations and/or skin biopsy should be performed if clinical diagnosis suggests the necessity of these examinations.
Makiko Hiragun   +2 more
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Blepharoptosis: diagnostic tests

Vestnik oftal'mologii, 2016
The article discusses diagnostic algorithms for blepharoptosis in patients with Horner's syndrome, myasthenia, chronic progressive ophthalmoplegia, myotonic dystrophy, and acute neurovascular events. Basic methods for evaluating the upper eyelid position and ptosis severity as well as special pharmacologic stress tests to reveal the true etiology of ...
I V Blinova, N V Fisenko, Y O Grusha
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The Diagnostic Tests

2012
As mentioned in the previous section, not every case of neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome shows signs of arterial compression. In a recent study [1] 148 patients were evaluated with duplex ultrasound; when the patients were subjected to routine maneuvers of abduction of the arm to elicit compression of the artery, 51 % of them showed definite ...
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Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests

2008
As technology advances, diagnostic tests continue to improve, and each year, we are presented with new alternatives to the standard procedures. Given the plethora of diagnostic alternatives, diagnostic tests must be evaluated to determine their place in the diagnostic armamentarium.
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Diagnostic Tests in Allergy [PDF]

open access: possible, 2000
The diagnosis of allergic diseases depends first and foremost on a careful medical history taken by a suitably experienced clinician. An allergy history concentrates on the relationship between the consistency of the patient’s problems with allergic diseases and the likelihood that the problems are the result of allergen exposure.
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DIAGNOSTIC TESTING FOR HEADACHE

Medical Clinics of North America, 2001
A careful and complete headache history supplemented by a neurologic and general physical examination, as appropriate, enables the astute physician to diagnose most headaches correctly without diagnostic testing. When indications are present (see Box 1), some headache patients with a normal physical examination require testing even though the yield may
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