Diagnostic Odds Ratio
Diagnosis of mycoplasma pneumoniae by loop mediated isothermal amplification: systematic review and meta analysis
... the diagnostic studies: Sensitivity, speci- ficity, positive likelihood ratio (PLR), negative likelihood ratio (NLR), diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), and 95% confi- dence intervals ...
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Original Article Diagnostic value of C-reactive protein in hepatocellular carcinoma: a meta-analysis
... a diagnostic marker for HCC, we calculated the namely sensitivity, specificity, diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), negative predictive value (NPV) and positive predictive value ...likelihood ...
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Accumulate evidence for IP 10 in diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis
... likelihood ratio (PLR), negative likelihood ratio (NLR), diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), the area under the curve (AUC) and hierarchical summary receiver operating characteristic (HSROC) ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of optical coherence tomography angiography for choroidal neovascularization: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... pooled diagnostic accuracy in a random-effects model using STATA ...of diagnostic Accuracy Version 2 was used to evaluate the risk of bias of each study by Revman ...the diagnostic accuracy of ...
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Analytical and Clinical Evaluation of the PathoNostics AsperGenius Assay for Detection of Invasive Aspergillosis and Resistance to Azole Antifungal Drugs during Testing of Serum Samples
... and diagnostic odds ratio) of the AsperGenius species assay, 2 ⫻ 2 tables were constructed, using both proven/probable invasive fungal disease (IFD) and proven/probable/possible IFD as true cases and ...
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Small-study effects and time trends in diagnostic test accuracy meta-analyses: a meta-epidemiological study
... the diagnostic odds ratio and total sample size, we first estimated the natural logarithm of the odds ratio in each individual study using Firth’s correction method for small samples ...
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Review Article Serum Tg level used as predictor of radioiodine remnant ablation success in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer: a diagnosis meta-analysis
... The Diagnostic Odds Ratio and AUROC values of Tg were ...likelihood ratio (PLR) increased to about 40%, and the negative likelihood ratio (NLR) reduced to about ...
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Nucleic acid amplification tests in the diagnosis of tuberculous pleuritis: a systematic review and meta analysis
... Funnel plot for evaluation of publication bias in studies with in-house tests The funnel graph plots the log of the diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) against the standard error of the log of the DOR (an ...
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Instruments for assessing the risk of falls in acute hospitalized patients: a systematic review and meta analysis
... the diagnostic odds ratio, using the Moses-Shapiro- Littemberg method to decide whether the points on a ROC curve should be adjusted symmetrically or asymmet- rically, respectively ...
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Diagnostic value of urinary tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 2 and insulin like growth factor binding protein 7 for acute kidney injury: a meta analysis
... DOR: Diagnostic odds ratio; ED: Emergency department; FN: False-negative; FP: False-positive; ICU: Intensive care unit; IGFBP7: Insulin-like growth factor- binding protein 7; KDIGO: Kidney Disease: ...
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Diagnostic performance of confocal laser endomicroscopy for optical diagnosis of gastric intestinal metaplasia: a meta-analysis
... Gastric cancer is an aggressive disease, which is the sec- ond leading cause of cancer-related death globally [1]. It is well acknowledged that the pathogenesis of stomach cancer is a multi-step and sequential process ...
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Housing type and risk of malaria among under five children in Nigeria: evidence from the malaria indicator survey
... Data were analysed using Stata version 14. Basic descrip- tive statistics were used in describing the distribution of children and the malaria prevalence by the independ- ent variables (flooring materials, wall ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of MRA and MRI for the bursal-sided partial-thickness rotator cuff tears: a meta-analysis
... Currently, it is still a hot topic that what the best method is to treat partial-thickness rotator cuff tears. The rotator cuff tear completion method leads to faster recovery of function and range of motion but ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) as a non-invasive test for steatosis in suspected non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... Thirdly , CAP provides an estimate of what percentage of hepatocytes is affected steatosis whereas the histological evaluation by liver biopsy provides information on the pathological changes in liver parenchyma. Using ...
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The use of mannan antigen and anti mannan antibodies in the diagnosis of invasive candidiasis: recommendations from the Third European Conference on Infections in Leukemia
... Our reference standard was the set of EORTC/MSG cri- teria. To calculate tests ’ accuracy and to reflect the cate- gories that are used in clinical practice, we considered the patients with proven and probable IC as ...
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Long term dominance of Mycobacterium tuberculosisUganda family in peri urban Kampala Uganda is not associated with cavitary disease
... Phenotypes of MTB lineages in peri-urban Kampala There is increasing evidence from experiments in animal models and from clinical studies indicating that MTBC strains differ in their phenotypes [3,5,18]. For instance, ...
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... The ambiguity aversion is influenced by the context in which the decision is taken. For example, Fox and Weber (2002), found four aspects of context that can make ambiguity more attractive or less attractive. These ...
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Physical examination tests of the shoulder: a systematic review and meta analysis of diagnostic test performance
... What constitutes superior clinical performance of a clinical test? In line with previous findings [13], no single PETS in this meta-analysis showed superior diagnostic validity when pooled test performance was ...
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Neutrophil CD64 expression as a diagnostic marker for sepsis in adult patients: a meta analysis
... Our meta-analysis has several limitations. First, this meta-analysis included only eight studies, though we did our best to search eligible studies. One reason for this may be that we included only publications written ...
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Patterns and predictors of malaria care seeking, diagnostic testing, and artemisinin based combination therapy for children under five with fever in Northern Nigeria: a cross sectional study
... Another downfall of seeking treatment at a PMV is that they are not authorized to administer diagnostic tests [personal communication, Dr. Mohammed Ibrahim]. This was evident by a recent survey that found ...
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