How accurate are rapid influenza diagnostic tests?

How accurate are rapid influenza diagnostic tests?

Influenza surveillance with rapid diagnostic tests.

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How accurate are bedside hearing tests?

The accuracy of five bedside hearing tests was evaluated in 107 consecutive adults, using pure-tone audiometry as the standard reference. Bedside tests had poor sensitivity (< or =0.60), relatively good specificity (> or =0.74), and variable positive predictive value (0.24 to 1.0) for detecting hearing loss. Sensitivity improved when bedside tests were combined with case history. The diagnostic...

Accuracy of rapid influenza diagnostic tests: a meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND Timely diagnosis of influenza can help clinical management. PURPOSE To examine the accuracy of rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RIDTs) in adults and children with influenza-like illness and evaluate factors associated with higher accuracy. DATA SOURCES PubMed and EMBASE through December 2011; BIOSIS and Web of Science through March 2010; and citations of articles, guidelines, re...

Performance of rapid influenza H1N1 diagnostic tests: a meta‐analysis

BACKGROUND Following the outbreaks of 2009 pandemic H1N1 infection, rapid influenza diagnostic tests have been used to detect H1N1 infection. However, no meta-analysis has been undertaken to assess the diagnostic accuracy when this manuscript was drafted. METHODS The literature was systematically searched to identify studies that reported the performance of rapid tests. Random effects meta-an...