UK experts call for national system to evaluate diagnostic tests

How to Evaluate Diagnostic Tests: The Thessaly Test

You are attending a continuing education seminar and a colleague tells you about a new orthopedic test for evaluating meniscal tears in the knee. The colleague explains that this orthopedic test, called the Thessaly test, is “great” at evaluating meniscal tears and suggests that you begin using it. At this point, you may wonder just how great the Thessaly Test is for diagnosing meniscal tears a...

Technique to Evaluate a Comprehension-based Interface for Multiple Experts

This paper deals with an interface between expert knowledge and group of experts from whom this knowledge has been acquired and who are going to be users of it. Method is based on deriving the most supported opinion of the group of experts acting as knowledge sources with further applying of it as an interface to each of experts acting as user. Knowledge is acquired using three-valued voting-ty...

Methodologic standards for the evaluation of diagnostic tests: the need to evaluate the standards.

Experts question usefulness of screening travellers to UK for Ebola.

Experts have questioned the effectiveness of the UK government’s announcement that it is going to introduce screening at major UK transport terminals in a bid to intercept travellers with Ebola disease. The government made the announcement to stem fears over the potential spread of the disease in the United Kingdom, after a man in the United States died from the disease and a nurse caring for m...

The Necessity to Use of the National Hemoglobinopathy Registry system for Providing Healthcare Services to Patients

The article is a letter to the editor, so it has no abstract.