Assessing Diagnostic Tests I: You Can't Be Too Sensitive.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1053/j.jfas.2015.02.020.
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Abstract
Clinicians and patients are always interested in less invasive, cheaper, and faster diagnostic tests. When introducing such a test, physicians must ensure that it is reliable in its diagnoses and does not commit errors. In this article, I discuss several ways that new tests are compared against gold standard diagnostics.
Medical subject headings
- Diagnostic Tests, Routine
- Sensitivity and Specificity