A priori risk and optimal test accuracy in prenatal diagnostics

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 406-413

  Felder, Stefan ^a   Werblow, Andreas ^a   Robra, Bernt Peter ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amniocentesis; Optimal test accuracy; Prenatal diagnostics; ROC curve; Triple test

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRIOL;

AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION THEORY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 0141678201     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X03257267     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Hook EB. Maternal age, paternal age, and human chromosome abnormality: nature, magnitude, and mechanisms of effects. In: Dellarco VL, Voytek PE, eds. Aneuploidy, Etiology and Mechanisms. New York: Plenum; 1985:117-32.
2. Bray I, Wright DE, Davies D, Hook EB. Joint estimation of Down's syndrome risk and ascertainment rates: a meta-analysis of nine published data sets. Prenat Diagn. 1998;18(1):9-20.
3. Wald N, Leck I. Antenatal and Neonatal Screening. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press; 2001.
4. Greene, WM. Econometric Analysis. 3rd ed. London: Prentice Hall; 1997.
5. Pauker SP, Pauker SG. The amniocentesis decision: an explicit guide for parents. Birth Defects. 1979;15:289-324.
6. Kuppermann M, Goldberg JD, Nease RF, Washington AE. Who should be offered prenatal diagnosis? The 35-year-old question. Am J Public Health. 1998;89:160-3.
7. Harris RA, Washington AE, Feeny D, Kuppermann M. Decision analysis of prenatal testing for chromosomal disorders: what do the preferences of pregnant women tell us? Genetic Testing. 2001;5(1):23-32.
8. Wald NJ, Densem JW, Smith D, Klee GG. Four marker serum screening for Down's syndrome. Prenat Diagn.1994;14:707-16.
9. Geweke J. Bayesian inference in econometric models Using Monte Carlo integration. J Econometrics. 1989;57:1317-40.
10. Felder S, Schmitt H, Robra B-P. Nonmaleficence and the diagnostic cutpoint. Working Paper Series No. 19/2000 (ISSN 1615-4274), Faculty of Economics, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg; 2000.