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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7-8
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-7-9
pubmed:abstractText
According to evidence-based medicine (EBM), physicians must be able to assess and understand scientific evidence generated from biomedical research. Among the many statistical methods involved in the proof of the evidence, an essential area concerns how to select and interpret diagnostic tests to confirm or exclude a diagnosis. Rather surprisingly, these statistical methods are not always correctly reported or satisfactorily explained in some EBM reference books, which leads to misunderstandings and incorrect analyses of published studies in the biomedical literature. In this paper, the authors consider the methodology for performing diagnostic test studies and a correct analysis of the diagnostic test results by explaining it for a clinical audience with a working example.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1827-1596
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
74
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
431-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Statistical methods for evidence-based medicine: the diagnostic test. Part I.
pubmed:affiliation
Medical Statistics and Biometry Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnologies, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy. cesana@med.unibs.it
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article