Medical Diagnostic Tests: A Review of Test Anatomy, Phases, and Statistical Treatment of Data
Author
Source
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2019, Issue 2019 (31 Dec. 2019), pp.1-22, 22 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2019-05-28
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
22
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Diagnostic tests are approaches used in clinical practice to identify with high accuracy the disease of a particular patient and thus to provide early and proper treatment.
Reporting high-quality results of diagnostic tests, for both basic and advanced methods, is solely the responsibility of the authors.
Despite the existence of recommendation and standards regarding the content or format of statistical aspects, the quality of what and how the statistic is reported when a diagnostic test is assessed varied from excellent to very poor.
This article briefly reviews the steps in the evaluation of a diagnostic test from the anatomy, to the role in clinical practice, and to the statistical methods used to show their performances.
The statistical approaches are linked with the phase, clinical question, and objective and are accompanied by examples.
More details are provided for phase I and II studies while the statistical treatment of phase III and IV is just briefly presented.
Several free online resources useful in the calculation of some statistics are also given.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Bolboacă, Sorana D.. 2019. Medical Diagnostic Tests: A Review of Test Anatomy, Phases, and Statistical Treatment of Data. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine،Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-22.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1130476
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Bolboacă, Sorana D.. Medical Diagnostic Tests: A Review of Test Anatomy, Phases, and Statistical Treatment of Data. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine No. 2019 (2019), pp.1-22.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1130476
American Medical Association (AMA)
Bolboacă, Sorana D.. Medical Diagnostic Tests: A Review of Test Anatomy, Phases, and Statistical Treatment of Data. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-22.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1130476
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1130476