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Effectiveness is the gold standard of clinical research [PDF]

, 2017
Psychological treatments have been shown to be at least as effective (and sometime even more effective) than psychotropic medications for many psychiatric disorders, in particular anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, and personality disorders ...
Formica, Ivan, Gazzillo, Francesco, Salvatore, Sergio, Schimmenti, Adriano, Simonelli, Alessandra   +4 more
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Diagnostic test evaluation methodology: A systematic review of methods employed to evaluate diagnostic tests in the absence of gold standard – An update

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, K. Wilson, S. Graziadio, L. Vale, A. Allen   +4 more
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Genome-based Salmonella serotyping as the new gold standard

Scientific Reports, 2020
Salmonella enterica is the second most reported bacterial cause of food-borne infections in Europe. Therefore molecular surveillance activities based on pathogen subtyping are an important measure of controlling Salmonellosis by public health agencies ...
Sangeeta Banerji, S. Simon, A. Tille, A. Fruth, A. Flieger   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparative Study of a Novel Lateral Flow Rapid Test with Conventional Serological Test Systems for the Diagnosis of Canine Leishmaniosis in Croatia and Brazil

Pathogens
Control of canine infections with Leishmania infantum (L. infantum), a major zoonotic disease in Brazil and southern Europe, is becoming increasingly important due to its close proximity to humans, the increasing import of dogs from endemic regions and ...
Rouzbeh Mahdavi, Franjo Martinkovic, Hosam Shams-Eldin, Ingrid E. Pereira, Alexandre B. Reis, Andreas Latz, Daniela Heinz, Cristina Aira, Alba Fresco-Taboada, Elfadil Abass, Jelena Romero-Olmedo, Henrique C. Teixeira, Ulrich Steinhoff   +12 more
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How to use χ2 test correctly——χ2 test for the data of four-fold table collected from the matched pairs design

Sichuan jingshen weisheng, 2021
The purpose of this paper was to introduce the McNemar΄s χ2 test and SAS and R software implementation of four-fold table data collected from the matched pairs design.
Hu Chunyan, Hu Liangping
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Two-Method Planned Missing Designs for Longitudinal Research [PDF]

, 2014
We examine longitudinal extensions of the two-method measurement design, which uses planned missingness to optimize cost-efficiency and validity of hard-to-measure constructs.
Garnier-Villarreal, Mauricio, Little, Todd D., Rhemtulla, Mijke   +2 more
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Development of a Lateral Flow Assay for the Detection of the Hepatitis C Virus Core Antigen

Pharmaceuticals
Background: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection remains a global health challenge, with millions of people affected annually. Current diagnostic methods, reliant on antibody screening and viral RNA detection, are complex, costly, and often inaccessible ...
Erick Joan Vidal-Alcántara, Sonia Hernández Antón, Paloma Rueda, María Belén Yélamos, Julián Gómez, Salvador Resino, Alba Fresco-Taboada, Isidoro Martínez   +7 more
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An Evaluation of Multiple Query Representations for the Relevance Judgments used to Build a Biomedical Test Collection [PDF]

Healthcare Informatics Research, 2012
ObjectivesThe purpose of this study is to validate a method that uses multiple queries to create a set of relevance judgments used to indicate which documents are pertinent to each query when forming a biomedical test collection.MethodsThe aspect query ...
Borim Ryu, Jinwook Choi
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Should the gold standard be restored?

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2009
Статья д.э.н., профессора Кузнецова В.С. представляет собой полемическую рецензию на статью профессора, доктора экономических наук, заведующего кафедрой «Международные валютно-кредитные отношения» МГИМО Катасонова В.Ю.
V. S. Kuznetsov
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Is the Gold Standard Still the Gold Standard among Monetary Systems? [PDF]

, 2008
Critics have raised a number of theoretical and historical objections to the gold standard. Some have called the gold standard a "crazy" idea. The gold standard is not a flawless monetary system. Neither is the fiat money alternative.
Lawrence H. White
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