Diagnostic testing: An emergency medicine perspective

Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 348-354

  Worster, Andrew ^a,e   Innes, Grant ^b,d   Abu Laban, Riyad B ^c,d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Emergency medicine; Likelihood ratio; Predictive value; Prevalence; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244400964     PISSN: 14818035     EISSN: 14818035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1481803500007764     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. Sackett DL, Straus S. On some clinically useful measures of the accuracy of diagnostic tests [editorial]. ACP J Club 1998;129: A17-9.
2. Nettleman MD. Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curves. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 1988;9:374-7.
3. Shapiro DE. The interpretation of diagnostic tests. Stat Methods Med Research 1999;8:113-34.
4. Grzybowski M, Younger JG. Statistical methodology: III. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. Acad Emerg Med 1997;4(8):818-26.
5. Gallagher EJ. Clinical utility of likelihood ratios. Ann Emerg Med 1998;31:391-7.
6. Young MJ, Fried LS, Eisenberg JM, Hershey JC, Williams SV. The single-cutoff trap: implications for Bayesian analysis of stress electrocardiograms. Med Decision Making 1989;9:176-80.
7. Jaeschke R, Guyatt GH, Sackett DL. Users' guides to the medical literature. III. How to use an article about a diagnostic test. B. What are the results and will they help me in caring for my patients? The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. JAMA 1994;271(9):703-7.
8. Fagan TJ. Nomogram for Bayes's theorem [letter]. N Engl J Med 1975;293(5):257.
9. Sox HC Jr, Blatt MA, Higgins MC, Marton KI. Medical decision making. Boston: Butterworths; 1988.