Diagnostic Accuracy
Assessing the quality of studies on the diagnostic accuracy of tumor markers
... One of the most widely used tools to asses study quality is the QUADAS instrument. However, it has been designed – and thus far is exclusively used - for systematic reviews or metaanalyses [8]. One problem in using the ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of CD44V6 for osteosarcoma: a meta-analysis
... should prudentially make the conclusion of the associ- ation with CD44V6 and OS for some potential limita- tions. First, because the rarity of primary malignant tumors of the bone, accounting for approximately 0.2 % of ...
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Diagnostic Accuracy of MRI in Primary Cervical Cancer
... better diagnostic accuracy has been found [22], and, in all the papers we reviewed, the authors used standard ...improve diagnostic accuracy of MRI ...
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A study of diagnostic accuracy of the Florida Obsessive Compulsive Inventory – Thai Version (FOCI T)
... optimal diagnostic cut-off scores to use it as a screening tool for OCD have never been reported although they are needed ...the diagnostic accuracy of the Thai version of the FOCI by analyzing the ...
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Comparative Analysis of the Diagnostic Accuracy of Cell Block Technique to Conventional Smears in Minimally Invasive Procedures of Pulmonary Lesions
... THE DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF CELL BLOCK TECHNIQUE TO CONVENTIONAL SMEARS IN MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURES OF PULMONARY LESIONS” submitted by me for the degree of ...
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The diagnostic accuracy of the mobile phone teledermatoscopy
... This study was a prospective, open-label, non-randomized controlled clinical study of the diagnostic accuracy of mobile teledermatoscopy. ethical approval was obtained from eskisehir Osmangazi University ...
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Flexible combination of multiple diagnostic biomarkers to improve diagnostic accuracy
... Suppose that every subject has m biomarker measure- ments X = ( X (1) , X (2) , . . . , X (m) ) T with a probability density function f (X), where X (j) is a continuous measure- ment of the j-th biomarker. It also has a ...
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Prenatal diagnosis of LUTO: improving diagnostic accuracy
... Conclusions We propose a clinical score that combines five antenatal variables for the prospective diagnosis of congenital LUTO. This score showed good discriminative capacity in predicting LUTO, and better ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of capnovolumetry for the identification of airway obstruction – results of a diagnostic study in ambulatory care
... A strength of the study was that we included a large group of patients consecutively within a large private practice of pneumologists. By reason of free access to health care, also regarding specialists, we think that ...
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The Accuracy of GAP and MGAP Scoring Systems in Predicting Mortality in Trauma; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study
... This diagnostic accuracy study was conducted amongst 1861 trauma patients admitted to Rajaee Hospital in Shiraz, Iran, during ...their accuracy in predicting ...the accuracy of different ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of prostate cancer antigen 3 (PCA3) prior to first prostate biopsy: A systematic review and meta analysis
... The strengths of this study were the quality with respect to the selection of patients, the index test, and the reference standard because there was a low risk of bias related to these aspects in all the studies. ...
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Time to publication among completed diagnostic accuracy studies: associated with reported accuracy estimates
... reporting accuracy estimates above versus below the median, the median number of months was 23 versus 25 for sensitivity ( p = ...of diagnostic accuracy compared to those reporting lower ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of spirometry in primary care
... accurate diagnosis. Nevertheless, spirometry should be used in diagnosing asthma, as the positive predictive value has been comparatively high in general practice. One important limitation was that 22% of the spirometric ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of cyst fluid amphiregulin in pancreatic cysts
... the accuracy of cyst fluid AREG to diagnose malignant mucinous ...highest diagnostic accuracy was used to report the sensitivity and specificity of ...
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Defining ranges for certainty ratings of diagnostic accuracy: A GRADE concept paper
... Currently, guideline panels seldom have access to advanced models. As a result, they will inevitably focus on diagnostic accuracy [9 e 11]. Here, we discuss how one can, in these cases, make fully ...
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Impact of contacting study authors to obtain additional data for systematic reviews: diagnostic accuracy studies for hepatic fibrosis
... Results: Of the 66 authors, 68% were successfully contacted and 42% provided additional data for 29 out of 77 studies (38%). All authors who provided data at all did so by the third emailed request (ten authors provided ...
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A systematic review of the diagnostic accuracy of prostate specific antigen
... the diagnostic pathway would be like in the absence of tPSA, it seems likely that virtually all patients with suspicious clinical findings would require ...the diagnostic accuracy of the tPSA ...
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Ultrasound mapping of pelvic endometriosis: does the location and number of lesions affect the diagnostic accuracy? a multicentre diagnostic accuracy study
... Our study could be criticised for not more accurately differentiating between DIE of the rectum and sigmoid or between rectovaginal and vaginal disease. We could also be criticised for including subjective assessments ...
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Hip pathology: the diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging
... Minimal data is available for the diagnosis of liga- mentum teres tears and chondral rim damage. It is also noted that it can be difficult to quantify the degree of damage with conventional imaging [6]. Furthermore, the ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonographic features for lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: a single center retrospective study
... and accuracy for each US characteristic suspicious for malignancy were ...The diagnostic accuracy of predictions of malignancy was calculated with receiver operating characteristic (ROC) ...
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