Reliability and Validity of Diagnostic Tests

Assessing the Validity of Diagnostic Tests

Validity and Reliability of the Diagnostic Tests for Ménière's Disease.

Ménière's disease is defined as an idiopathic syndrome characterized by endolymphatic hydrops. Various tests and measurement methods have been employed for the diagnosis of Ménière's disease. These include audiological, vestibular, radiological, clinical, and biochemical tests. However, the lack of a definitive or gold standard diagnostic test sometimes complicates the process of diagnosis. Hen...

Validity and Reliability Reports in Applied Linguistics Research Articles: The case of tests and questionnaire

This study intended to determine the way validity and reliability i.e., psychometric properties were reported in the Applied Linguistics research articles. The study also focused on the measurement methods applied to determine the validity and reliability of the scores derived from the tests and questionnaires in the empirical studies. The corpus of the study included 331 empirical studies deri...

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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...