Increased use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests improves targeting of anti-malarial treatment in rural Tanzania: implications for nationwide rollout of malaria rapid diagnostic tests. [PDF]
, 2012 : BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization recommends parasitological confirmation of all malaria cases. Tanzania is implementing a phased rollout of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for routine use in all levels of care as one strategy to increase
Rashid Khatib +15 more
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BMC Family Practice, 2021 Background There has been an increase in the numbers of patients presenting to primary care with suspected colorectal malignancy and subsequently an increase in demand for endoscopy.
CC Kearsey +5 more
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Evaluation of Four Rapid Antigen Tests for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus
Oman Medical Journal, 2021 Objectives: Considering the increasing, significant burden that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) imposes on the healthcare system, the need for simple, rapid, and affordable diagnostic tests to support the existing costly and demanding polymerase ...
Sulaiman Al-Alawi +8 more
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Overnight Dexamethasone Suppression Test in the Diagnosis of Cushing's Disease [PDF]
Acta Medica Iranica, 2010 "nRealizing the cause of Cushing's Syndrome (CS) is one of the most challenging processes in clinical endocrinology. The long high dose dexamethasone suppression test (standard test) is costly and need an extended inpatient stay.
Fatemeh Esfahanian, Rozana Kazemi
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'As a clinician, you are not managing lab results, you are managing the patient': how the enactment of malaria at health facilities in Cameroon compares with new WHO guidelines for the use of malaria tests. [PDF]
, 2012 In response to widespread overuse of antimalarial drugs, the World Health Organisation changed guidelines in 2010 to restrict the use of antimalarials to parasitologically confirmed malaria cases. Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have been presented
Njei, Abanda Ngu +5 more
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Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018 Introduction:Â The potential benefit of ultrasonography for detection of thoracic bone fractures has been proven in various surveys but no comprehensive conclusion has been drawn yet; therefore, the present study aimed to conduct a thorough meta-analytic
Mahmoud Yousefifard +8 more
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Can clinical scoring systems improve the diagnostic accuracy in patients with suspected adult appendicitis and equivocal preoperative computed tomography findings? [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2017 Objective Adult appendicitis (AA) with equivocal computed tomography (CT) findings remains a diagnostic challenge for physicians. Herein we evaluated the diagnostic performance of several clinical scoring systems in adult patients with suspected ...
Min Seok Chae +6 more
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"Even if the test result is negative, they should be able to tell us what is wrong with us": a qualitative study of patient expectations of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria. [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: The debate on rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria has begun to shift from whether RDTs should be used, to how and under what circumstances their use can be optimized.
Akanpigbiam, Samson +8 more
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for meta‐analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies
, 2023 We developed metadta, a flexible, robust, and user-friendly statistical procedure that fuses established and innovative statistical methods for meta-analysis, meta-regression, and network meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies in Stata.
Victoria N. Nyaga +3 more
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Diagnostic accuracy of routine liver function tests to identify patients with significant and advanced alcohol-related liver fibrosis [PDF]
, 2021 Aims: Alcohol is the leading cause of cirrhosis, but most patients go undetected until decompensation occurs despite frequent contacts with the healthcare system.
Kjaergaard, Maria; id_orcid +7 more
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