Why CBNAAT not called as gold standard test for TB? [PDF]
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary CareSahjid Mukhida, Nikunja K. Das
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On determining the sensitivity and specificity of a new diagnostic test through comparing its results against a non-gold-standard test. [PDF]
Biochem Med (Zagreb), 2023 Diagnostic tests are important clinical tools. To assess the sensitivity and specificity of a new test, its results should be compared against a gold standard. However, the gold-standard test is not always available.
Habibzadeh F.
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A studentized permutation test for three-arm trials in the 'gold standard' design [PDF]
Statistics in Medicine, 2016 The 'gold standard' design for three-arm trials refers to trials with an active control and a placebo control in addition to the experimental treatment group. This trial design is recommended when being ethically justifiable and it allows the simultaneous comparison of experimental treatment, active control, and placebo. Parametric testing methods have
Tobias Mütze +5 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 ObjectiveTo systematically review methods developed and employed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of medical test when there is a missing or no gold standard.Study design and settingsArticles that proposed or applied any methods to evaluate the ...
Chinyereugo M Umemneku Chikere +4 more
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Evaluation of a rapid test for the diagnosis of cholera in the absence of a gold standard.
PLoS ONE, 2012 BackgroundEarly detection and confirmation of cholera outbreaks are crucial for rapid implementation of control measures. Because cholera frequently affects regions with limited laboratory resources, rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) designed for field ...
Anne-Laure Page +5 more
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No need for a gold-standard test: on the mining of diagnostic test performance indices merely based on the distribution of the test value [PDF]
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2023 Background Diagnostic tests are important in clinical medicine. To determine the test performance indices — test sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratio, predictive values, etc.
Farrokh Habibzadeh, Hooman Roozbehi
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IEEE Access, 2022 Recently, active research has been conducted on Korean grammatical error correction on machine translation (MT) and automatic noise generation. However, there is no gold-standard test set for objective and official comparative analysis.
Seonmin Koo +6 more
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Optimal Allocation of Gold Standard Testing under Constrained Availability: Application to Assessment of HIV Treatment Failure [PDF]
, 2020 The World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for monitoring the effectiveness of HIV treatment in resource-limited settings (RLS) are mostly based on clinical and immunological markers (e.g., CD4 cell counts). Recent research indicates that the guidelines are inadequate and can result in high error rates.
Tao Liu +4 more
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Serological diagnosis of avian influenza in poultry: is the haemagglutination inhibition test really the ‘gold standard’? [PDF]
Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 2012 Background The serological diagnosis of avian influenza (AI) can be performed using different methods, yet the haemagglutination inhibition (HI) test is considered the ‘gold standard’ for AI antibody subtyping.
Arianna Comin +4 more
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Chapter 9: Options for Summarizing Medical Test Performance in the Absence of a “Gold Standard” [PDF]
Journal of general internal medicine, 2012 The classical paradigm for evaluating test performance compares the results of an index test with a reference test. When the reference test does not mirror the “truth” adequately well (e.g.
Thomas A Trikalinos, Cynthia Balion
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