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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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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MetaBayesDTA: codeless Bayesian meta-analysis of test accuracy, with or without a gold standard [PDF]
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2023 Background The statistical models developed for meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies require specialised knowledge to implement. This is especially true since recent guidelines, such as those in Version 2 of the Cochrane Handbook of ...
Enzo Cerullo +5 more
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K-NCT: Korean Neural Grammatical Error Correction Gold-Standard Test Set Using Novel Error Type Classification Criteria [PDF]
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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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 immunochromatographic test kit to the gold standard fluorescent antibody test for diagnosis of rabies in animals in Bhutan [PDF]
BMC Veterinary Research, 2020 Background Rabies kills approximately 59,000 people each year worldwide. Rapid and accurate diagnosis of rabies is important for instituting rapid containment measures and for advising the exposed people for postexposure treatment.
Tenzin Tenzin +21 more
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‘Gold-standard’ field test is a non-sequitur
Pulmonology, 2023 D.S. Urquhart +3 more
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Evaluation of a Rapid, Low‐Cost Broth Turbidity Test for Detecting Ampicillin‐Resistant Lower Urinary Tract Infections in Dogs and Cats [PDF]
Journal of Veterinary Internal MedicineBackground Effective treatment of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in dogs and cats relies on timely recognition of antimicrobial resistance, but traditional microbiological culture and susceptibility testing require 48–72 h and can be cost‐prohibitive ...
W. Cooper Brookshire +6 more
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Of gastro and the gold standard: evaluation and policy implications of norovirus test performance for outbreak detection [PDF]
Journal of Translational Medicine, 2009 Background The norovirus group (NVG) of caliciviruses are the etiological agents of most institutional outbreaks of gastroenteritis in North America and Europe.
Fisman David N +3 more
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A sequential classification rule based on multiple quantitative tests in the absence of a gold standard [PDF]
, 2015 In many medical applications, combining information from multiple biomarkers could yield a better diagnosis than any single one on its own. When there is a lack of a gold standard, an algorithm of classifying subjects into the case and non-case status is
Jingyang Zhang +3 more
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