[PDF] Top 20 Summary of glaucoma diagnostic testing accuracy : an evidence based meta analysis

... new glaucoma tests between studies is very ...outcome analysis, as well as cutoffs are this varied, it is very difficult to be certain about the accuracy and effectiveness of a ... See full document

... test accuracy across ...subgroup analysis to determine the reason for ...a summary receiver operat- ing characteristic curve (sROC), which included a 95 % confidence ... See full document

... susceptibility testing (DST) for ...standard testing method; however, phenotypic DST is not efficient when used clinically, due to the long turnaround ...assay testing methods based on the ... See full document

... This meta-analysis has several limitations that require ...are based on only 13 included articles with relatively small sample ...to testing at different times and under varied ...the ... See full document

... subgroup analysis, differences in the selection of reference standard and number of fields taken per eye may also contribute for the heterogeneity ...heterogeneity summary results should be cautiously ... See full document

... the diagnostic test measures [2–4]. The literature, initially based on least squares regressions [5, 6], now spans hierarchical models [4, 7–9], bivariate copula distributions [10–12], bivariate mixture ... See full document

... available evidence are worth ...reported accuracy estimates may not be replicable or relevant to other clinical ...comparative evidence are based on a limited number of ... See full document

... using summary quality scores in systematic reviews has been widely debated elsewhere ...[207-209]. Summary scores, when used to inform quality- based analyses, may mask important effects of ... See full document

... to diagnostic accuracy studies [11-13]. Publica- tion of diagnostic accuracy studies may be influenced by a different set of factors than randomized ...test accuracy studies tend to ... See full document

... provides evidence of the ease-of-use, acceptability, and accuracy of task shifting to support access to specific laboratory tests in HIV ...point-of-care testing com- parably to laboratory ... See full document

... The summary receiver op- erating characteristic (sROC) curve shows an optimum joint sensitivity and specific- ity of ...of diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) is ...This meta-analysis brings ... See full document

... the meta-analysis, vague priors were chosen for the prior distributions, so that the results primarily reflect inference from the presented data without prior knowl- ...the accuracy, cut-point and ... See full document

... The summary receiver oper- ating characteristic (SROC) curve was also conducted based on the sensitivity and ...good diagnostic performance of nCD64 ...relation analysis, and P < ... See full document

... For this study we considered case-controlled-studies published and not published (Grey literature), without language restriction, from 1995 to 2018. Information was carefully extracted from all eligible publications ... See full document

... a meta-analy- sis performed in 2006 by Uzzan et ...respectively. Based on these findings, new biomarkers are required to improve the clinical management of ...previous meta- analysis showed ... See full document

... A meta-analysis of published literature was performed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy for differentiating GD from DT patients by the measurement of mean peak systolic velocity of superior ... See full document

... Published in Ophthalmology http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26411836 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 T[r] ... See full document

... Permanent repository link: http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/12788/ Link to published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ophtha.2015.08.019 Copyright and reuse: City Research Online aims to[r] ... See full document

... The diagnostic value of SHOX2 DNA methylation in patients with lung cancer remains ...and meta-analysis to assess diagnostic accuracy of SHOX2 DNA methylation in the lymph node, ... See full document

... the accuracy of a diagnostic test [51], therefore more lar- ger prospective trials should be performed to elucidate the diagnostic value of ...overall diagnostic accur- acy of PCT, especially ... See full document