Assessing Strength of Evidence in Diagnostic Tests

Assessing the Validity of Diagnostic Tests

assessing the validity of diagnostic tests

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the washback effect of discretepoint vs. integrative tests on the retention of content in knowledge tests

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Assessing the Validity of Diagnostic Tests

To provide effective health services, it is important to distinguish populations of people with and without diseases. Accurate diagnosis of diseases is important for delivering the appropriate treatments, implementing preventive programs in the community, and finding the causes and etiology of diseases. Therefore, a special attention should be paid to the quality of diagnostic tests. Instead of...

Assessing the usefulness of diagnostic tests.

Ideally, to ascertain the usefulness of a given medical treatment, investigators organize broad multicenter trials, such as the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET) (1), in which they can compare outcomes in a sufficiently large number of patients. One could argue that a comparable method should be used for the evaluation of diagnostic tools. After all, it ultimately...