meta4diag: Bayesian Bivariate Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Test Studies for Routine Practice [PDF]
This paper introduces the \proglang{R} package \pkg{meta4diag} for implementing Bayesian bivariate meta-analyses of diagnostic test studies. Our package \pkg{meta4diag} is a purpose-built front end of the \proglang{R} package \pkg{INLA}. While \pkg{INLA} offers full Bayesian inference for the large set of latent Gaussian models using integrated nested ...
Guo, Jingyi, Riebler, Andrea Ingeborg
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Global burden of human brucellosis : a systematic review of disease frequency [PDF]
BACKGROUND: This report presents a systematic review of scientific literature published between 1990-2010 relating to the frequency of human brucellosis, commissioned by WHO.
A El Sherbini +40 more
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Overnight Dexamethasone Suppression Test in the Diagnosis of Cushing's Disease [PDF]
"nRealizing the cause of Cushing's Syndrome (CS) is one of the most challenging processes in clinical endocrinology. The long high dose dexamethasone suppression test (standard test) is costly and need an extended inpatient stay.
Fatemeh Esfahanian, Rozana Kazemi
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Tuberculosis diagnostics and biomarkers: needs, challenges, recent advances, and opportunities [PDF]
Tuberculosis is unique among the major infectious diseases in that it lacks accurate rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests. Failure to control the spread of tuberculosis is largely due to our inability to detect and treat all infectious cases of pulmonary
Alexandre Harari +118 more
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Introduction:Â The potential benefit of ultrasonography for detection of thoracic bone fractures has been proven in various surveys but no comprehensive conclusion has been drawn yet; therefore, the present study aimed to conduct a thorough meta-analytic
Mahmoud Yousefifard +8 more
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Can clinical scoring systems improve the diagnostic accuracy in patients with suspected adult appendicitis and equivocal preoperative computed tomography findings? [PDF]
Objective Adult appendicitis (AA) with equivocal computed tomography (CT) findings remains a diagnostic challenge for physicians. Herein we evaluated the diagnostic performance of several clinical scoring systems in adult patients with suspected ...
Min Seok Chae +6 more
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Evaluation of Four Rapid Antigen Tests for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus
Objectives: Considering the increasing, significant burden that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) imposes on the healthcare system, the need for simple, rapid, and affordable diagnostic tests to support the existing costly and demanding polymerase ...
Sulaiman Al-Alawi +8 more
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Empiric treatment of pulmonary TB in the Xpert era: Correspondence of sputum culture, Xpert MTB/RIF, and clinical diagnoses. [PDF]
BackgroundClinical tuberculosis diagnosis and empiric treatment have traditionally been common among patients with negative bacteriologic test results. Increasing availability of rapid molecular diagnostic tests, including Xpert MTB/RIF and the new Xpert
Cattamanchi, Adithya +12 more
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Recent Progress in the Development of Diagnostic Tests for Malaria
The impact of malaria on global health has continually prompted the need to develop effective diagnostic strategies. In malaria endemic regions, routine diagnosis is hampered by technical and infrastructural challenges to laboratories. These laboratories
Francis D. Krampa +3 more
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Validating blood tests as a possible routine diagnostic assay of Alzheimer’s disease
In recent years, exciting developments in disease modifying treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD) have made accurate and timely diagnosis of this disease a priority. Blood biomarkers (BBMs) for amyloid pathology using improved immunoassay and mass spectrometry techniques have been an area of intense research for the last 10 years and are coming to ...
Kodosaki, Eleftheria +2 more
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