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Interpreting Diagnostic Tests for SARS-CoV-2.
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to affect much of the world. Knowledge of diagnostic tests for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is still evolving, and a clear understanding of the nature of the ...
N. Sethuraman, S. S. Jeremiah, A. Ryo
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Assessing the Accuracy of Diagnostic Tests
General Psychiatry, 2018Gold standard tests are usually used for diagnosis of a disease, but the gold standard tests may not be always available or cannot be administrated due to many reasons such as cost, availability, ethical issues etc.
Fang Li, Hua He
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Testing the Independence of Two Diagnostic Tests
Biometrics, 2001Consider two diagnostic procedures having binary outcomes. If one of the tests results in a positive finding, a more definitive diagnostic procedure will be administered to establish the presence or absence of a disease. The use of both tests will improve the overall screening sensitivity when the two tests are independent, compared with employing two ...
Yu Shen, Marvin Zelen, Dongfeng Wu
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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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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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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.
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