Medical Diagnostic Tests: A Review of Test Anatomy, Phases, and Statistical Treatment of Data
Comput. Math. Methods Medicine, 2019 Diagnostic tests are approaches used in clinical practice to identify with high accuracy the disease of a particular patient and thus to provide early and proper treatment.
Sorana D. Bolboacă
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nestcheck: diagnostic tests for nested sampling calculations [PDF]
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018 Nested sampling is an increasingly popular technique for Bayesian computation - in particular for multimodal, degenerate and high-dimensional problems.
E. Higson +3 more
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A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Comparing the Diagnostic Accuracy Tests of COVID-19
Diagnostics, 2023 In this paper, we present a systematic review and meta-analysis that aims to evaluate the reliability of coronavirus disease diagnostic tests in 2019 (COVID-19).
Juan Jeferson Vilca-Alosilla +8 more
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Advances in diagnostic testing [PDF]
Medical Mycology, 2005 Within the past decade surrogate markers have become important and reliable tools for the early diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis. Surrogate markers include the antigens galactomannan and (1 --> 3)-beta-D-glucan for which commercial assays are available, as well as fungal DNA for which experimental PCR assays have been developed.
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European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging, 2019 AIMS To provide a pooled estimation of contemporary pre-test probabilities (PTPs) of significant coronary artery disease (CAD) across clinical patient categories, re-evaluate the utility of the application of diagnostic techniques according to such ...
L. Juárez-Orozco +7 more
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Tuberculosis diagnostics and biomarkers: needs, challenges, recent advances, and opportunities [PDF]
, 2012 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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Rapid testing for malaria in settings where microscopy is available and peripheral clinics where only presumptive treatment is available: a randomised controlled trial in Ghana. [PDF]
, 2010 OBJECTIVE: To test in West Africa the impact of rapid diagnostic tests on the prescription of antimalarials and antibiotics both where microscopy is used for the diagnosis of malaria and in clinical (peripheral) settings that rely on clinical diagnosis ...
Akanpigbiam, Samson +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Objective To systematically review methods developed and employed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of medical test when there is a missing or no gold standard.
Chinyereugo M Umemneku Chikere +4 more
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Assessing student reasoning in upper-division electricity and magnetism at Oregon State University [PDF]
, 2015 Standardized assessment tests that allow researchers to compare the performance of students under various curricula are highly desirable. There are several research-based conceptual tests that serve as instruments to assess and identify students ...
Manogue, Corinne A., Zwolak, Justyna P.
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Kepler Data Validation I—Architecture, Diagnostic Tests, and Data Products for Vetting Transiting Planet Candidates [PDF]
, 2018 The Kepler Mission was designed to identify and characterize transiting planets in the Kepler Field of View and to determine their occurrence rates. Emphasis was placed on identification of Earth-size planets orbiting in the Habitable Zone of their host ...
J. Twicken +16 more
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