Defining the clinical pathway in cochrane diagnostic test accuracy reviews

Defining the clinical pathway in cochrane diagnostic test accuracy reviews

BACKGROUND The value of a medical test depends on the context in which it might be used. Ideally, questions, results and conclusions of a diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) systematic review should be presented in light of this context. There is increasing acceptance of the value for knowing the impact a test can have on downstream consequences such as costs, implications for further testing and tr...

Cochrane diagnostic test accuracy reviews

In 1996, shortly after the founding of The Cochrane Collaboration, leading figures in test evaluation research established a Methods Group to focus on the relatively new and rapidly evolving methods for the systematic review of studies of diagnostic tests. Seven years later, the Collaboration decided it was time to develop a publication format and methodology for Diagnostic Test Accuracy (DTA) ...

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy Chapter 11 Interpreting results and drawing conclusions

First Rank Symptoms for Schizophrenia (Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy Review).

Brain Mapping Biomarkers of Socio-Emotional Processing in Schizophrenia ................................................ 73 Stephan F. Taylor and Angus W. MacDonald III s Ethical Challenges in the Primary Prevention of Schiz phrenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773 Paul S. Appelbaum The Magic of Movement; the Potential of Exercise to Improve Cognition . . ...

Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy for evidence-based diagnostic practice in Africa

© 2012. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. In 2009, a debate started about whether there was enough evidence to change current guidelines, from presumptive malarial treatment of children under 5 years who present with fever, to testing these children before treating them.1,2 A major argument against this policy change...